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Название книги: The War of the Worlds
Автор(ы): Herbert Wells
Жанр: Научная Фантастика
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But who shall dwell in these worlds if they beinhabited?… Are we or they Lords of theWorld?… And how are all things made for man?– Kepler (quoted in The Anatomy of Melancholy)
Book OneThe Coming of the Martians
Chapter 1The 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 li
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