Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
Source: A Modern Utopia, ch. 5, sct. 2, (1905; repr. in The Works of H. G. Wells, vol. 9, 1925).
-- H G Wells, (Sep 21 1866-1946), English writer; He in renown for his science-fiction and imaginative social philosophy, e.g., Time Machine, 1895.