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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wells, H. G.

Wells, H. G.
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The War Of The Worlds: Book I

"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?"
Johann Kepler (1571-1630)

Book I The Coming Of The Martians

Chapter 1 The Eve of the War

In the complacency of the latter part of the nineteenth century, there
was no one who would believe that man and his earth were being closely
observed from space by beings as mortal as man, but with intelligence far
superior to his. Men speculated on the possibilities of life on Mars, but
those creatures ...

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