The Time Machine - International World History Project

The Time MachineeBook brought to you byCreate, view, and edit PDF. Download the free trial version.‘Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my owntroubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought oftheir unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable driftof their movements out of the unknown past into theunknown future. I thought of the great precessional cyclethat the pole of the earth describes. Only forty times hadthat silent revolution occurred during all the years that Ihad traversed. And during these few revolutions all theactivity, all the traditions, the complex organizations, thenations, languages, literatures, aspirations, even the merememory of Man as I knew him, had been swept out ofexistence. Instead were these frail creatures who hadforgotten their high ancestry, and the white Things ofwhich I went in terror. Then I thought of the Great Fearthat was between the two species, and for the first time,with a sudden shiver, came the clear knowledge of whatthe meat I had seen might be. Yet it was too horrible! Ilooked at little Weena sleeping beside me, her face whiteand starlike under the stars, and forthwith dismissed thethought.‘Through that long night I held my mind off theMorlocks as well as I could, and whiled away the time bytrying to fancy I could find signs of the old constellationsin the new confusion. The sky kept very clear, except for99 of 148