<f301r.P.10;W> no one would have believed in the last years of the - <f301r.P.11;W> nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly - <f301r.P.12;W> and closely by intelligences greater than mans and yet as - <f301r.P.13;W> mortal as his own that as men busied themselves about their - <f301r.P.14;W> various concerns they were scrutinised and studied perhaps - <f301r.P.15;W> almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise - <f301r.P.16;W> the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a - <f301r.P.17;W> drop of water with infinite complacency men went to and - <f301r.P.18;W> fro over this globe about their little affairs serene in their - <f301r.P.19;W> assurance of their empire over matter it is possible that the - <f301r.P.20;W> infusoria under the microscope do the same no one gave - <f301r.P.21;W> a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human - <f301r.P.22;W> danger or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life - <f301r.P.23;W> upon them as impossible or improbable it is curious to recall - <f301r.P.24;W> some of the mental habits of those departed days at most - <f301r.P.25;W> terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon mars - <f301r.P.26;W> perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a mis - <f301r.P.27;W> sionary enterprise yet across the gulf of space minds that - <f301r.P.28;W> are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish - <f301r.P.29;W> intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded this - <f301r.P.30;W> earth with envious eyes and slowly and surely drew their - <f301r.P.31;W> plans against us and early in the twentieth century came - <f301r.P.32;W> the great disillusionment =
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