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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
Wells recognized that these crude novels correctly foresaw modern warfare as aiming at the massive destruction of the physical structures of an enemy civilization and the terrorizing if not annihilating of its noncombatant population. His Martians anticipate with uncomfortable accuracy, for example, American bombings of Dresden and Tokyo, followed by Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and boastful proclamations of "shock and awe" tactics against Iraq.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
But who shall dwell in these worlds if they be inhabited? . . . Are we or they Lords of the World? . . . And how are all things made for man?-- KEPLER {quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy}
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
For neither do men live nor die in vain. Here
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
There's lots will take things as they are--fat and stupid; and lots will be worried by a sort of feeling that it's all wrong, and that they ought to be doing something. Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion,
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
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 scrutnised 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. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. 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.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering heavenward, turning the twilight to a palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapour striding upon its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running, shrieking, falling headlong, shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening-out of the opaque cone of smoke. And then night and extinction – nothing but a silent mass of impenetrable vapour hiding its dead.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
At the time there was a strong feeling in the streets that the authorities were to blame for their incapacity to dispose of the invaders without all this inconvenience.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
What was needed now was not bravery, but circumspection.
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H.G. Wells _ The War of the Worlds
The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.
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