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Quotation from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
“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”
The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter I (The Eve of the War) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36)
The famous opening sentence, looking back from after the invasion on the complacency of the 1890s.
Citation: "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" — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, Chapter I (The Eve of the War) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36). (id the-war-of-the-worlds-q1)
Portrait: H.G. Wells by Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
