Hg Wells. Time machine (№ 895)

You make the mistake of saying that we cannot move about in Time. If I, for example, vividly recall some event, then go back to the instant of its occurrence: as if mentally absent. I for a moment take a leap into the past. Of course, we are not able to stay in the past for any particle of Time, just as the savage or the animal can hang in the air at a distance of at least six feet from the ground. In this respect, a civilized man is better off than the savage. It is contrary to the force of gravity can go up in a balloon. Why not hope that in the end he will be able to stop or accelerate his movement through Time, or even rotate in the opposite direction?