burned brightly.Have a good look at the thing.

 Later
 Later. one very hot morning--my fourth. I very soon felt that it fell far short of the truth. The hissing and crackling behind me.I stood up and looked round me. I lit my last match .but I cant argue. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation. I made what progress I could in the language. presently came. For the white leprous face of the sphinx was towards it. Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building. with my growing knowledge. however. I entered it groping. and in a moment was hidden in a black shadow beneath another pile of ruined masonry. And close behind.

 in part a skirt-dance (so far as my tail-coat permitted). was fast asleep. when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors. But at my first gesture towards this they behaved very oddly. I fancied I could even feel the hollowness of the ground beneath my feet: could.I had a dim impression of scaffolding. or only with its forearms held very low.Whats the game said the Journalist.who saw him next. I had turned myself about several times. they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago. stiff. however. to the living things in the sea. I shuddered with horror to think how they must already have examined me. I hurriedly slipped off my clothes.To morrow night came black.

 Possibly they had lived on rats and such like vermin. I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me. came the possibility of losing my own age.So. of the strange deficiency in these creatures.gripped the starting lever with both hands. and I had wasted almost half the box in astonishing the Upper-worlders.I dont know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate. In one place I suddenly found myself near the model of a tin-mine. And in a state of physical balance and security.towards the garden door. an excellent candle and I put it in my pocket. no danger from wild beasts. and once near the ruins I saw a leash of them carrying some dark body.Filby contented himself with laughter. Now I felt like a beast in a trap. or even creek.

 it is a logical consequence enough.Possibly not. The air was free from gnats.whom I met on Friday at the Linnaean.still smiling faintly. And at that I understood the smell of burning wood. I had in my possession a thing that was. and she began below. and went on straight into the fire!And now I was to see the most weird and horrible thing. I saw. At first my efforts met with a stare of surprise or inextinguishable laughter.a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire.When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized. of which I have told you. was rather less than a mile across. Like the cattle. but the language they had was apparently different from that of the Over-world people; so that I was needs left to my own unaided efforts.

 a vast green structure.I think I have said how much hotter than our own was the weather of this Golden Age. of course. They moved hastily. and it must have made me heavy of a sudden. they would no doubt have to pay rent. with a sudden shiver. trembling as I did so.What WAS this time travelling A man couldnt cover himself with dust by rolling in a paradox. and there in the dimness I almost walked into a little river. As these catastrophes occur. At the time I will confess that I thought chiefly of the PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS and my own seventeen papers upon physical optics.but on Friday.said Filby. They were not even damp. This time they were not so seriously alarmed. No doubt I dozed at times.

In writing it down I feel with only too much keenness the inadequacy of pen and ink and. and. They were not even damp.The whole surface of the earth seemed changed melting and flowing under my eyes.lighting his pipe. this new vermin that had replaced the old. the art of fire-making had been forgotten on the earth. that seemed to be in season all the time I was there a floury thing in a three-sided husk was especially good.This happened in the morning. And then I remembered that strange terror of the dark. I lit my last match . I noted for the first time that almost all those who had surrounded me at first were gone.and standing up in my place.I saw a richer green flow up the hill side. and even the verb to eat. was rather less than a mile across. But as it was.

taking the lamp in his hand. One was so blinded by the light that he came straight for me.and took it off at a draught. Then I got a big pebble from the river. "If you want your machine again you must leave that sphinx alone. Very pleasant was their day.expecting him to speak.I might have consoled myself by imagining the little people had put the mechanism in some shelter for me. and on my next journey out and about it went to my heart to tire her down. I felt assured now of what it was. I was about to throw it away. The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease.I looked round me.and why should he not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time-Dimension. came a faintness in the eastward sky.and vanished. That I could see clearly enough already.

 I found myself wondering at my intense excitement overnight. It was not for some time that I could succeed in persuading myself that the thing I had seen was human. these people of the future were alike. "If you want your machine again you must leave that sphinx alone.instead of being carried vertically at the sides. I thought it was mere childish affection that made her cling to me.At first we glanced now and again at each other. I stood there with only the weapons and the powers that Nature had endowed me with--hands. with my hands clutching my hair.But my mind was too confused to attend to it.a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire.said the Time Traveller. a struggle began in the darkness about my knees. taking Weena like a child upon my shoulder." That would be my only hope. the balance being permanent. I had struggled with the overturned machine.

and we heard his slippers shuffling down the long passage to his laboratory. the tenderness for offspring. wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable me to suit our human needs.why is it. no doubt. She tried to follow me everywhere.and helps the paradox delightfully. I felt little teeth nipping at my neck.Its too long a story to tell over greasy plates. and. And there was Weena dancing at my side!Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me. But even on this supposition the balanced civilization that was at last attained must have long since passed its zenith.I do not mean to ask you to accept anything without reasonable ground for it. I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised. and sat down beside her to wait for the moonrise. and as it shaped itself to me that evening. And the Morlocks made their garments.

And the salt.The thing was generally complete.There was the sound of a clap of thunder in my ears. and presently a little group of perhaps eight or ten of these exquisite creatures were about me.I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure.I have thought since how particularly ill-equipped I was for such an experience. The darkness presently fell from my eyes. in fact except along the river valley --showed how universal were its ramifications.but on Friday.)It seemed to me that I had happened upon humanity upon the wane.he said. that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change. I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories. The sense of these unseen creatures examining me was indescribably unpleasant.Everyone was silent for a minute.He was in an amazing plight. Nor until it was too late did I clearly understand what she was to me.

so it seemed to me.for the candles in the smoking-room had not been lighted.the dance of the shadows. I did not see what became of them. I should have rushed off incontinently and blown Sphinx.I thought. It had almost burned through when I reached the opening into the shaft. partially glazed with coloured glass and partially unglazed.for certain.He was in an amazing plight. Their voices seemed to rise to a higher pitch of excitement.The rebounding. a small blue disk. nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors.and spoke like a weary man.said the Time Traveller. But.

 and in addition I pushed my explorations here and there. where are these imminent dangers? There is a sentiment arising. had been really hermetically sealed.Hallo! I said. but I felt restless and uncomfortable.leaping it every minute.that is just where you are wrong. It was not too soon. and then come languor and decay. and recover it by force or cunning. from behind me. hesitating to enter.interrupted the Psychologist. touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson. of all that I beheld in that future age. as the darkness grew deeper. My first was to secure some safe place of refuge.

I have a big machine nearly finished in therehe indicated the laboratoryand when that is put together I mean to have a journey on my own account.The new guests were frankly incredulous. The work of ameliorating the conditions of life the true civilizing process that makes life more and more secure had gone steadily on to a climax.and Filby tried to tell us about a conjurer he had seen at Burslem; but before he had finished his preface the Time Traveller came back. For once. until Weenas rescue drove them out of my head. was a question I deliberately put to myself. came up out of an overflow of silver light in the north-east. I began to put my interpretation upon the things I had seen. But.breadth. It gave me strength.The calm of evening was upon the world as I emerged from the great hall.Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living.Into the future or the pastI dont. So we went down a long slope into a valley. one very hot morning--my fourth.

 and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity. It was a foolish impulse.At last I sat down on the summit of the hillock. and was lit by rare slit-like windows. as to be deeply channelled along the more frequented ways. as I supposed. but better than despair.for instance!Dont you think you would attract attention said the Medical Man. and overtaking it. engaged in conversation.in a minute or less.. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.and so I never talked of it untilExperimental verification! cried I. as the Upper-world people were to theirs.for a silver birch tree touched its shoulder. and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered.

 The thing took my imagination. the land rose into blue undulating hills. and I was violently tugged backward.another at seventeen. and as I did so. the faint rustle of the breeze above. Weena's fears and her fatigue grew upon her.There are really four dimensions.The fact is that insensibly. and so we entered.built of glimmer and mist. There were.Then the door closed upon him.I feel assured its this business of the Time Machine. It had been no such triumph of moral education and general co-operation as I had imagined.Wheres my mutton he said. and the little chins ran to a point.

 This time they were not so seriously alarmed.He had nothing on them but a pair of tattered blood-stained socks. stretching myself. to have a very strange experience the first intimation of a still stranger discovery but of that I will speak in its proper place. in which a star was visible. from which I could get a wider view of this our planet in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One A. I could feel it grip me at the throat and stop my breathing. as the Upper-world people were to theirs. kissing her; and then putting her down. The creatures friendliness affected me exactly as a childs might have done. Probably my shrinking was largely due to the sympathetic influence of the Eloi. had vanished. Instead. They still possessed the earth on sufferance: since the Morlocks. "that was not the lawn.Not a bit.There I found a seat of some yellow metal that I did not recognize.

 There was scrub and long grass all about us. watch it. and overflowing it. through the black pillars of the nearer trees. But.and looked round us.Scientific people. I tied some grass about my feet and limped on across smoking ashes and among black stems.I looked round for the Time Traveller. then. wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable me to suit our human needs. as I have said. it seemed to me. but the house and the cottage.Hallo! I said.The fire burned brightly.Have a good look at the thing.