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Book: The War of the Worlds 

Author: H. G. Wells

Release Date: July 1992

Last Updated: September 20, 2019

Language: English.

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🔍War of the Worlds describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens from Mars who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged ''fighting machines'' that could potentially be viewed as precursors to the tank. After defeating the resistance the Martians devastate much of eastern England, including London..

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o recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. 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. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature.

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THE EVE OF THE WAR.

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. 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. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed

days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars,

perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. 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. And early

in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment.

The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a

mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the

sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular

hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased

to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is

scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling

to the temperature at which life could begin. It has air and water and all that is

necessary for the support of animated existence.

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very

end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have

developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level. Nor was it

generally understood that since Mars is older than our earth, with scarcely a

quarter of the superficial area and remoter from the sun, it necessarily follows

that it is not only more distant from time’s beginning but nearer its end.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone

far indeed with our neighbour. Its physical condition is still largely a mystery,

but we know now that even in its equatorial region the midday temperature

barely approaches that of our coldest winter. Its air is much more attenuated than

ours, its oceans have shrunk until they cover but a third of its surface, and as its

slow seasons change huge snowcaps gather and melt about either pole and

periodically inundate its temperate zones. That last stage of exhaustion, which to

us is still incredibly remote, has become a present-day problem for the

inhabitants of Mars. 

The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their

intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across

space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of,

they see, at its nearest distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a

morning star of hope, our own warmer planet, green with vegetation and grey

with water, with a cloudy atmosphere eloquent of fertility, with glimpses through

its drifting cloud wisps of broad stretches of populous country and narrow, navy-

crowded seas.

And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth, must be to them at least as

alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to us. The intellectual side of

man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would

seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars. Their world is far gone in

its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what

they regard as inferior animals. To carry warfare sunward is, indeed, their only

escape from the destruction that, generation after generation, creeps upon them.

And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless

and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such

as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians,

in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of

extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are

we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same

spirit?

The Martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtlety—

their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of ours—and to have

carried out their preparations with a well-nigh perfect unanimity. Had our

instruments permitted it, we might have seen the gathering trouble far back in

the nineteenth century. Men like Schiaparelli watched the red planet—it is odd,

by-the-bye, that for countless centuries Mars has been the star of war—but failed

to interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they mapped so well.

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