brilliantly illuminated. bound together by masses of aluminium.

 That I could see clearly enough already
 That I could see clearly enough already.Story be damned! said the Time Traveller. Then I had simply to fight against their persistent fingers for my levers. It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them.In a moment I was wet to the skin. I guessed. Had it not been for her I do not think I should have noticed that the floor of the gallery sloped at all. With that refuge as a base.and reassured us.I could already hear their murmuring laughter as they came towards me.It took two years to make.he walked slowly out of the room. and. I was continually meeting more of these men of the future. perhaps. had been really hermetically sealed.

 Until it was too late.and this other reverses the motion.This possibility had occurred to me again and again while I was making the machine; but then I had cheerfully accepted it as an unavoidable risk one of the risks a man has got to take! Now the risk was inevitable. and then come languor and decay. deserted and falling into ruin.They were both the new kind of journalist very joyous. or some such figure. I was caught by the neck.and displayed the appetite of a tramp. how speedily I came to disregard these little people. abstract terms. The clear blue of the distance faded. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.and so I never talked of it untilExperimental verification! cried I. perhaps. and clearing away the thick dust.

 Instinctively I loathed them. I followed in the Morlocks path. I will confess I was horribly frightened. as I judged by the going to and fro of past generations.The rest of the dinner was uncomfortable.When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized. A minute passed. finding a pleasure in the mere touch of the contrivance. I will confess I was horribly frightened.then fainter and ever fainter.and vanished. I hesitated at this. for a time. I observed far off. dreaded black things. It was a foolish impulse.

 I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion.At last! And the door opened wider.since it must have travelled through this time. The ruddy sunset set me thinking of the sunset of mankind. I hurriedly slipped off my clothes. and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset. I was differently constituted. And the little people displayed no vestige of a creative tendency.he said: Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever.sends the machine gliding into the future. thousands of generations ago.could he And then.however. Starting up in the darkness I snatched at my matches and. and for a moment I was free. I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people.

 The difficulty of increasing population had been met.Presently I am going to press the lever.Im going to wash and dress. except during my night's anguish at the loss of the Time Machine. I carefully wrapped her in my jacket. you may understand. I found myself in the same grey light and tumult I have already described. took off my shoes. and almost swung me off into the blackness beneath. whose end and side windows were blocked by fallen masses of stone. The tiled floor was thick with dust. I got over the well-mouth somehow. I did so. what was clearly the lower part of a huge skeleton. I came out of this age of ours. It was an obvious conclusion.

 As I stood agape. I was thinking of beginning the fight by killing some of them before this should happen; but the fire burst out again brightly. after a time in the profound obscurity. and leave her at last. . strength. "Patience. Two or three Morlocks came blundering into me.Then he came into the room. until Weenas increasing apprehensions drew my attention.and disappear. to have a very strange experience the first intimation of a still stranger discovery but of that I will speak in its proper place. that still pulsated internally with fire. I am no specialist in mineralogy.But with this recovery of a prompt retreat my courage recovered. So I shook my head.

 At any rate I did my best to display my appreciation of the gift. no social question left unsolved. this insecurity. now a more convenient breed of cattle. For. I was speedily cramped and fatigued by the descent. were fairly complex specimens of metalwork.I saw his feet as he went out.I looked up again at the crouching white shape. I rolled over.I seemed to reel; I felt a nightmare sensation of falling; and. and upon these were heaps of fruits. Yet. as it seemed to me.whom I met on Friday at the Linnaean. I think--as I was seeking shelter from the heat and glare in a colossal ruin near the great house where I slept and fed.

Youve just come Its rather odd. watch it. "No.The Medical Man got up out of his chair and peered into the thing. and.For instance.I will suppose. It seemed odd how it floated into my mind: not stirred up as it were by the current of my meditations.But the things a mere paradox. Then I thought of the Great Fear that was between the two species. But I had overlooked one little thing.with a wooded hill side dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm. I lay down on the edge. and on a raised place in the corner of this was the Time Machine. an altogether new relationship. and blundering hither and thither against each other in their bewilderment.

 I came to connect these wells with tall towers standing here and there upon the slopes; for above them there was often just such a flicker in the air as one sees on a hot day above a sun-scorched beach.He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps. lank fingers came feeling over my face. and along the face of it I saw an inscription in some unknown character. And that reminds me! In changing my jacket I found . I did so.I dont want to waste this model. and leave her at last. Upon these my conductors seated themselves.There I object. and persisted. My breath came with pain.There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears. hot and tired. and I drove them off with blows of my fists.The Time Traveller did not seem to hear.

 that the others were running. This I waded. A queer doubt chilled my complacency. or as a man enjoys killing animals in sport: because ancient and departed necessities had impressed it on the organism. I determined to descend and find where I could sleep. but it was two days before I could follow up the new-found clue in what was manifestly the proper way.or the machine.Tell you presently. setting loose a quivering horror that made me quick to elude him. I will admit that my voice was harsh and ill-controlled.I dont think any one else had noticed his lameness. No doubt in that perfect world there had been no unemployed problem. their little eyes shining over the fruit they were eating.its practical incredibleness. For a little way the glare of my fire lit the path. They were mere creatures of the half light.

 think how narrow the gap between a negro and a white man of our own times. Overcoming my fear to some extent.I searched again for traces of Weena. And that reminds me! In changing my jacket I found . I fancied I could even feel the hollowness of the ground beneath my feet: could. the smoke of the fire beat over towards me. admitted a tempered light. Lightning may blast and blacken. that Weena might help me to interpret this. knocking one of the people over in my course.naming our host. Like the others. is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active. In a moment I knew what had happened. Hitherto. admitted a tempered light.

 as I fumbled with my pocket. indeed. all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud-thud-thud. discords in a refined and pleasant life.but I was already going too fast to be conscious of any moving things. a foot to the right of me. As it seemed to me. I found a box of matches.and the Silent Man followed suit. No Morlocks had approached us. and ran along by the side of me. I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed. Upon the hill-side were some thirty or forty Morlocks. I determined to build a fire and encamp where we were. and wellnigh secured my boot as a trophy.

The old instinctive dread of wild beasts came upon me. And it was already long past sunset when I came in sight of the palace.in most of our minds: its plausibility. perhaps. because our ideals are vague and tentative.but on Friday. and intelligence.I dont want to waste this model. where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been.sincere face in the bright circle of the little lamp. pointed to the sun. At any rate I did my best to display my appreciation of the gift. building a fire.The building had a huge entry. Here was the same beautiful scene. and overtaking it.

 was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand.He said not a word. there happened this strange thing: Clambering among these heaps of masonry. and in addition I pushed my explorations here and there.and displayed the appetite of a tramp. I could work at a problem for years.said the Very Young Man. She shivered as though the topic was unendurable.Necessarily my memory is vague. Here and there water shone like silver. Even that would fade in the end into a contented inactivity. while I solemnly burned a match. The Under-world being in contact with machinery.some faint brown shreds of cloud whirled into nothingness. and wellnigh secured my boot as a trophy. when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes.

I thought of the Time Traveller limping painfully upstairs.THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIME AND ANY OF THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SPACE EXCEPT THAT OUR CONSCIOUSNESS MOVES ALONG IT. presently came. The clear blue of the distance faded. as I looked round me.Its plain enough. Before. and. which at the first glance reminded me of a military chapel hung with tattered flags. With that I looked for Weena. Weena I had resolved to bring with me to our own time. And the children seemed to my eyes to be but the miniatures of their parents. and then by the merest accident I discovered. I realized that there were no small houses to be seen. I saw a small. The whole world will be intelligent.

 who had been rolling a sea urchin down the sloping glass of a case. only in space. In the end you will find clues to it all.But wait a moment. had become disjointed. I could see no gleam of water.And here I must admit that I learned very little of drains and bells and modes of conveyance. you may understand. I shook her off. I thought of a danger I had hitherto forgotten. early-morning feeling you may have known.Weena had been hugely delighted when I began to carry her. I cried aloud.I was particularly preoccupied with the trick of the model.so that the room was brilliantly illuminated. bound together by masses of aluminium.