![]() Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. The book starts with the narrator mentioning that the people of Earth never expected Martians. ![]() Wells narrator jumps from talking about the whole world, to talking about himself, to talking about what his brothers been up to. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Fasten your seatbelt, folks, because the plot of War of the Worlds can be a little bumpy. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. ![]() It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. ![]() ![]() “No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. ![]()
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