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Book One
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The Coming of the Martians
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No one would have believed in the last years of the
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nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly
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and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as
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mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their
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various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps
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almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise
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the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about
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their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter.
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