Cut-up War of the Cut-up Worlds

Mercy as to complain if the martians warred that the
infusoria under the microscope do it
receives from the sun is barely half of it is scarcely one
seventh of the volume of the creatures who inhabit this earth, must that life is an incessant
struggle for that
intelligent life might have developed the
intellectual side of man already admits pole and
periodically inundate its and intelligences such as we have scarcely cooling
to the temperature at which life coldest
winter. its air is much more immediate
pressure of necessity has has
already gone far indeed with our only more distant from time's beginning but after
generation, creeps upon them.

and largely a mystery, but we know now that even their world is far gone in its cooling the same. no one gave a thought to
the temperature barely approaches that of our destruction our own species has wrought, not incredibly remote, has become a
present-day have
shrunk until they cover but a third of might be
other men upon mars, perhaps little affairs, serene in their
assurance the
superficial area and remoter from the busied themselves about their various about the
sun at a mean distance of through its drifting cloud wisps of writer,
up to the very end of the than our
world; and long before this earth in its equatorial
region the midday scarcely need remind the reader, revolves before we judge of them too harshly we must danger, or thought of
them only to dismiss unsympathetic, regarded this earth in the same
spirit? a
microscope might scrutinise the transient our earth, with scarcely a quarter of the earth must have accelerated its eloquent of
fertility, with glimpses older worlds of space as sources of human and so blinded by his vanity, that no the idea of life upon them as impossible huge snowcaps gather and melt about either bison and the dodo, but upon its
inferior the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older perish,
intellects vast and cool and existence in a war of extermination that received by this world.
it must be, if temperate zones. that last stage existence, and it would seem that this too drew their plans against us. and
early in attenuated than ours, its oceans must have begun its course. the fact that waged
by european immigrants, in the space grey with water, with a cloudy atmosphere remember what
ruthless and utter no one would have believed in the last years of water. with infinite complacency men dreamed of,
they see, at its nearest days. at most terrestrial men fancied there is the belief
of the minds upon mars. the twentieth century came the great animated existence.

yet so vain is man, or
improbable. it is curious to recall a missionary enterprise. yet across the yet as mortal as his own; that as
men warmer planet, green with
vegetation and was being watched keenly and closely as ours are to those of the beasts that there far, or indeed at all,
beyond its broad
stretches of populous country and ceased to be molten, life upon its
surface could begin. it has air and water
and all races. the tasmanians, in spite of their 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat concerns they were
scrutinised and studied, distance only 35,000,000 of miles sunward nineteenth century, expressed any idea of fifty years. are we such
apostles of must someday overtake our planet only
upon animals, such as the vanished are the monkeys and lemurs to us. by
intelligences greater than man's and and
this world is still crowded with life, brightened their intellects, enlarged problem for the inhabitants of mars. the human likeness,
were entirely swept out of nearer its end.

the secular cooling that of
exhaustion, which to us is still that is necessary for the support of sun, it necessarily follows that
it is not perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with went to
and fro over this globe about their neighbour. its physical condition is
still inferior to themselves and ready to
welcome but crowded only with what they
regard as its surface, and as its slow
seasons change disillusionment.

the planet mars, I gulf of space, minds
that are to our minds of
them, a morning star of hope, our own of their empire over matter. it is possible their
powers, and hardened their hearts. creatures that swarm and
multiply in a drop understood that since
mars is older than with
envious eyes, and slowly and surely narrow, navy-crowded seas.

and we men, inferior animals. to carry warfare sunward of the nineteenth
century that this world is, indeed,
their only escape from the earthly level. nor was it generally and looking across space with
instruments, destruction that, generation be to them
at least as alien and lowly as some of the mental habits of
those departed