This was not all he made the acquaintance of other creatures not unlike “human spiders,” and gradually the truth dawned on him “that Man had not remained one species, but had differentiated into two distinct animals that the graceful children of the Upper world were not the only descendants of our generation, but that this bleached, obscene, nocturnal Thing, which had flashed before one, was also heir to all the ages. Hes attempting to convey how dreadful the world may. For though he was kindly received by a mild, diminutive people who were all strict vegetarians and lived entirely on fruit – horses, cattle, sheep, and dogs having become extinct, like the Icthyosaurus – he was compelled to come to the conclusion that the race had degenerated. Wells is attempting to depict a damaged, wrecked image of the future planet. A brilliant inventor tells his dinner guests that he has built a. We may at once say, however, that though he writes “of what the world will be when the years have died away,” his record is anything but a “gay” picture nor are his revelations likely to excite regret on the part of his readers at having been born 802,000 years too soon. Wells in which a time traveler experiences two horrifying visions of the future.

The machine itself is described, though, it is perhaps needless to say, not in so detailed a fashion that even the most ingenious of mechanicians would be able to construct one but the greater part of the story describes the inventor’s voyage through the coming cycles and his experience of the Thames valley in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One.

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