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seriously.
Yet though they wore no clothingit was in the other artificial additions to
their bodily resources that their great superiority over man lay. We men
The War of the Worlds
H. G. Wells Elecbook Classics
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with our bicycles and road-skatesour Lilienthal soaring-machinesour guns
and sticks and so forthare just in the beginning of the evolution that the
Martians have worked out. They have become practically mere brains
wearing different bodies according to their needs just as men wear suits of
clothes and take a bicycle in a hurry or an umbrella in the wet. And of their
appliancesperhaps nothing is more wonderful to a man than the curious fact
that what is the dominant feature of almost all human devices in mechanism
is absent—the wheel is absent; among all the things they brought to earth
there is no trace or suggestion of their use of wheels. One would have at
least expected it in locomotion. And in this connection it is curious to r [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]rk
that even on this earth Nature has never hit upon the wheelor has preferred
other expedients to its development. And not only did the Martians eyilai:
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