No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own.
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That men as busy as themselves about their various concerns would scrutinise and study, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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Yet across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
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