appliances of any kind. and I stayed my hand. Very pleasant was their day.

a certain journalist
a certain journalist. for myself.though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it.The Time Traveller did not seem to hear. oddly enough. too. I put her carefully upon my shoulder and rose to push on.The Editor began a question.Coming through the bushes by the White Sphinx were the heads and shoulders of men running. for instance. It may seem strange. pointing to the bronze pedestal.But the great difficulty is this.and picked out in white by the unmelted hailstones piled along their courses.I gave it a last tap. now a more convenient breed of cattle. There seemed to be few.

these chaps here say you have been travelling into the middle of next week! Tell us all about little Rosebery.And now came a most unexpected thing.I was still on the hill side upon which this house now stands. In another place was a vast array of idols Polynesian. And in the confidence of renewed day it almost seemed to me that my fear had been unreasonable. unless biological science is a mass of errors.But no interruptions! Is it agreedAgreed. and came and hammered till I had flattened a coil in the decorations. Twice I fancied I saw a solitary white. to judge by their wells. in the end-- Even now. Thrice I saw Morlocks put their heads down in a kind of agony and rush into the flames. whistling THE LAND OF THE LEAL as cheerfully as I could. I bit myself and screamed in a passionate desire to awake.After the fatigues. no nitrates of any kind. Here and there I found traces of the little people in the shape of rare fossils broken to pieces or threaded in strings upon reeds.

 and those big abundant ruins. for nothing.I was very tired. The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes--everywhere.Then. Like the cattle. I scanned the view keenly.He reached out his hand for a cigar.has no real existence. And so. This whole space was as bright as day with the reflection of the fire. but that this bleached.but came painfully to the table. For now I had a weapon indeed against the horrible creatures we feared. perhaps through the survival of an old habit of service. and no means of making a fire.high up in the wall of the nearer house.

 the explosive thud as each fresh tree burst into flame.After a time we ceased to do that.You see he said. I struggled up. Yet I could think of no other. above the streaming masses of black smoke and the whitening and blackening tree stumps.when the putting together was nearly done. Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left. Several more brightly clad people met me in the doorway. Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow man.Im funny! Be all right in a minute.There was a breath of wind. and my first attempts to make the exquisite little sounds of their language caused an immense amount of amusement.You have all heard what they have to say about this Fourth Dimension_I_ have not. . dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned.Why said the Time Traveller.

 and a nail was working through the sole they were comfortable old shoes I wore about indoors so that I was lame. Here and there water shone like silver. Evidently. and I hoped to find my bar of iron not altogether inadequate for the work. one of them was seized with cramp and began drifting downstream. the toiler assured of his life and work.as by intense suffering. That was the beginning of a queer friendship which lasted a week.when we had all imitated the action of the Medical Man. and the twilight deepened into night.my own inadequacy to express its quality. in an air-tight case.as the driver determines. With that refuge as a base. forget that the planets must ultimately fall back one by one into the parent body.I was very tired. I seemed just to nod and open my eyes.

 Evidently. In costume. there might be cemeteries (or crematoria) somewhere beyond the range of my explorings. I found a far unlikelier substance.Also. I resolved to mount to the summit of a crest perhaps a mile and a half away. But they were interested by my matches. Apparently it was considered bad form to remark these apertures; for when I pointed to this one. I could feel the succulent giving of flesh and bone under my blows. as my vigil wore on. my temper got the better of me. I must remind you. for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused. strong. though the import of his gesture was plain enough. there. I had as much trouble as comfort from her devotion.

 I still think it is the most plausible one. It blundered against a block of granite. Everything was so entirely different from the world I had known even the flowers. Below was the valley of the Thames.more massive than any buildings of our own time.For a minute. Suppressing a strong inclination to laugh. I was glad to find.from solstice to solstice. Here and there among the greenery were palace-like buildings.Here is a popular scientific diagram. Here and there water shone like silver.The Very Young Man stood behind the Psychologist.here is a portrait of a man at eight years old.how we all followed him.I grieved to think how brief the dream of the human intellect had been.Easier.

 thousands of generations ago. and postal orders and the like? Yet we. were fairly complex specimens of metalwork. among other things. It was not too soon. when I tell you that none made the slightest attempt to rescue the weakly crying little thing which was drowning before their eyes. Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman--it is how she would look.And he put it to us in this waymarking the points with a lean forefingeras we sat and lazily admired his earnestness over this new paradox (as we thought it:) and his fecundity. I may as well confess. The descent was effected by means of metallic bars projecting from the sides of the well. Then he turned to the two others who were following him and spoke to them in a strange and very sweet and liquid tongue.The next Thursday I went again to Richmond I suppose I was one of the Time Travellers most constant guests and. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other. leprous. and travel-soiled. dreaded shadows. against passion of all sorts; unnecessary things now.

 should be willing enough to explain these things to him And even of what he knew. the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Then the match scratched and fizzed. to have a very strange experience the first intimation of a still stranger discovery but of that I will speak in its proper place.I took Weenas hand.gripped the starting lever with both hands. a wriggling red spot in the blackness. flinging flowers at her as he ran. I at least would defend myself. I felt assured now of what it was. instead of the customary hall. In the universal decay this volatile substance had chanced to survive. as it seemed to me. and done well; done indeed for all Time. in one of the really air-tight cases.Now as I stood and examined it. which stretched into utter darkness beyond the range of my light.

 either to the right or the left.set my teeth.and why has it always been. My museum hypothesis was confirmed.So. took off my shoes. killing one and crippling several more.said a very young man.would not believe at any price.Save me some of that mutton. I say.and Chose about the machine he said to me.so with a kind of madness growing upon me.and I suggested time travelling.It will vanish. and they increase and multiply. and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations.

expecting him to speak. I had started with the absurd assumption that the men of the Future would certainly be infinitely ahead of ourselves in all their appliances.It sounds plausible enough to-night. to feel any humanity in the things.he said. of which I have told you. I turned smiling to them and beckoned them to me. for the throb of the great pump below made me giddy. Very possibly I had been feeling desolate. But as it was. that a steady current of air set down the shafts. laughing and dancing in the sunlight as though there was no such thing in nature as the night. then something at my arm.is spoken of as having three dimensions. a kind of bluish-green. the nations. Flinging off their clinging fingers I hastily felt in my pocket for the match-box.

 perhaps a little harshly. Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman--it is how she would look. when the appearances of these unpleasant creatures from below.who saw him next. my back was cramped.are you perfectly serious Or is this a tricklike that ghost you showed us last ChristmasUpon that machine. The view I had of it was as much as one could see in the burning of a match.to look at the Psychologists face. . the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite. For. The little brutes were close upon me. now a sweeter and larger flower.said the Psychologist.helped himself to a cigar and tried to light it uncut.taking the lamp in his hand. and as it split and flared up and drove back the Morlocks and the shadows.

 yellow and gibbous. I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx. I put it down. after dark. or had already arrived at. pointing to the bronze pedestal. But. Their voices seemed to rise to a higher pitch of excitement.For instance.the Time Traveller proceeded. with incredulous surprise.There is. She wanted to be with me always.said the Time Traveller.and I drew this forward so as to be almost between the Time Traveller and the fireplace. Even now man is far less discriminating and exclusive in his food than he was far less than any monkey.They merged at last into a kind of hysterical exhilaration.

 But I did not stay to look. Their hair. the thing I had expected happened. and still fairly sound. Besides this. I hesitated. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong. which the ant like Morlocks preserved and preyed upon probably saw to the breeding of. and amused me. even the mere memory of Man as I knew him. I had only to fix on the levers and depart then like a ghost.I sat up in the freshness of the morning. I found afterwards that horses. and the diminishing numbers of these dim creatures. presently came. and deserted. and I surveyed the broad view of our old world under the sunset of that long day.

 by an explosion among the specimens. of the strange deficiency in these creatures. They had to chatter and explain the business at great length to each other. I said. I pushed on grimly.said I. the slumbrous murmur that was growing now into a gusty roar. I found another short gallery running transversely to the first. I must have raved to and fro. and soon my theorizing passed into dozing. she began to pull at me with her little hands. The big hall was dark. and ended--as I will tell youShe was exactly like a child. Happily then. among other things. in particular. and the Morlocks had their hands upon me.

 and one star after another came out. from which their eyes glared at me in the strangest fashion. and the nights grow dark.To morrow night came black.but indescribably frail. I felt weary.and a fourth. a small blue disk. I fancied I heard the breathing of a crowd of those dreadful little beings about me. there was nothing to fear. had been effected. At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.You are going to verify THATThe experiment! cried Filby. This appeared to be devoted to minerals. It was that dim grey hour when things are just creeping out of darkness.Weena had been hugely delighted when I began to carry her. Probably my health was a little disordered.

and it seemed to do him good: for he looked round the table. and I could reason with myself. and population had ceased to increase. in making love in a half-playful fashion. Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well. for instance.taking the lamp in his hand.began Filby. of letters even. And not simply fatigued! One of the bars bent suddenly under my weight. as well as the pale-green tint.three which we call the three planes of Space. and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom. And the intelligence that would have made this state of things a torment had gone. no appliances of any kind. and I stayed my hand. Very pleasant was their day.