We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

T.S.Elliot
Little Gidding ~ Four Quartets
London 1943

A great number of real people are actually named in this story. It is, the author submits, impossible to get the full effect of contemporary life in which living ideas and movements play a dominant part without doing that.…. Some of these living personages are not only mentioned but more or less described…..these are affectionate hospitalities; they do not wound nor injure and can awaken no resentment.

HG Wells 
The World of William Clissold
London 1926