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  <f205r.P.10;W>     and before we judge of them too harshly we must remem -
  <f205r.P.11;W>     ber what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has -
  <f205r.P.12;W>     wrought not only upon animals such as the vanished bison -
  <f205r.P.13;W>     and the dodo but upon its inferior races the tasmanians -
  <f205r.P.14;W>     in spite of their human likeness were entirely swept out of -
  <f205r.P.15;W>     existence in a war of extermination waged by european immi -
  <f205r.P.16;W>     grants in the space of fifty years are we such apostles of -
  <f205r.P.17;W>     mercy as to complain if the martians warred in the same -
  <f205r.P.18;W>     spirit =

  <f205r.P.19;W>     the martians seem to have calculated their descent with -
  <f205r.P.20;W>     amazing subtletytheir mathematical learning is evidently -
  <f205r.P.21;W>     far in excess of oursand to have carried out their prepara -
  <f205r.P.22;W>     tions with a wellnigh perfect unanimity had our instru -
  <f205r.P.23;W>     ments permitted it we might have seen the gathering trouble -
  <f205r.P.24;W>     far back in the nineteenth century men like schiaparelli -
  <f205r.P.25;W>     watched the red planetit is odd bythebye that for count -
  <f205r.P.26;W>     less centuries mars has been the star of warbut failed to -
  <f205r.P.27;W>     interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they -
  <f205r.P.28;W>     mapped so well all that time the martians must have been -
  <f205r.P.29;W>     getting ready =

Special words

  pattern          count totct strang
  ---------------  ----- ----- ------
  we~                  4     8 1.2221
  mortions~            3     5 1.0312
  hove~                4    13 1.0195
  tor~                 3    14 0.6850
  been~                2     4 0.6470
  such~                2     4 0.6470
  thor~                3    17 0.5643
  must~                2     7 0.5548
  hos~                 2     9 0.4790
  our~                 2    10 0.4389
  to~                  4    41 0.1317
  is~                  2    18 0.1144
  centuro~             1     4 -0.0516
  not~                 1     4 -0.0516
  seen~                1     4 -0.0516
  some~                1     4 -0.0516
  with~                2    23 -0.0679
  lite~                1     7 -0.1439
  men~                 1     7 -0.1439
  ot~                  9   126 -0.1533
  os~                  2    26 -0.1674
  but~                 1     9 -0.2196
  hod~                 1     9 -0.2196
  oll~                 1     9 -0.2196
  so~                  1    13 -0.3835
  it~                  2    39 -0.5259
  its~                 1    19 -0.6224

  Total words in page = 182

Created on 1998-05-06 05:10:18 by stolfi