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The
bare
idea
of
this
is
no
doubt
horribly
repulsive
to
us
,
but
at
the
same
time
I
think
that
we
should
remember
how
repulsive
our
carnivorous
habits
would
seem
to
an
intelligent
rabbit
.
The
physiological
advantages
of
the
practice
of
injection
are
undeniable
,
if
one
thinks
of
the
tremendous
waste
of
human
time
and
energy
occasioned
by
eating
and
the
digestive
process
.
Our
bodies
are
half
made
up
of
glands
and
tubes
and
organs
,
occupied
in
turning
heterogeneous
food
into
blood
.
The
digestive
processes
and
their
reaction
upon
the
nervous
system
sap
our
strength
and
colour
our
minds
.
Men
go
happy
or
miserable
as
they
have
healthy
or
unhealthy
livers
,
or
sound
gastric
glands
.
But
the
Martians
were
lifted
above
all
these
organic
fluctuations
of
mood
and
emotion
.
Their
undeniable
preference
for
men
as
their
source
of
nourishment
is
partly
explained
by
the
nature
of
the
remains
of
the
victims
they
had
brought
with
them
as
provisions
from
Mars
.
These
creatures
,
to
judge
from
the
shrivelled
remains
that
have
fallen
into
human
hands
,
were
bipeds
with
flimsy
,
silicious
skeletons
(
almost
like
those
of
the
silicious
sponges
)
and
feeble
musculature
,
standing
about
six
feet
high
and
having
round
,
erect
heads
,
and
large
eyes
in
flinty
sockets
.
Two
or
three
of
these
seem
to
have
been
brought
in
each
cylinder
,
and
all
were
killed
before
earth
was
reached
.
It
was
just
as
well
for
them
,
for
the
mere
attempt
to
stand
upright
upon
our
planet
would
have
broken
every
bone
in
their
bodies
.
And
while
I
am
engaged
in
this
description
,
I
may
add
in
this
place
certain
further
details
which
,
although
they
were
not
all
evident
to
us
at
the
time
,
will
enable
the
reader
who
is
unacquainted
with
them
to
form
a
clearer
picture
of
these
offensive
creatures
.
In
three
other
points
their
physiology
differed
strangely
from
ours
.
Their
organisms
did
not
sleep
,
any
more
than
the
heart
of
man
sleeps
.
Since
they
had
no
extensive
muscular
mechanism
to
recuperate
,
that
periodical
extinction
was
unknown
to
them
.
They
had
little
or
no
sense
of
fatigue
,
it
would
seem
.
On
earth
they
could
never
have
moved
without
effort
,
yet
even
to
the
last
they
kept
in
action
.
In
twenty-four
hours
they
did
twenty-four
hours
of
work
,
as
even
on
earth
is
perhaps
the
case
with
the
ants
.
In
the
next
place
,
wonderful
as
it
seems
in
a
sexual
world
,
the
Martians
were
absolutely
without
sex
,
and
therefore
without
any
of
the
tumultuous
emotions
that
arise
from
that
difference
among
men
.
A
young
Martian
,
there
can
now
be
no
dispute
,
was
really
born
upon
earth
during
the
war
,
and
it
was
found
attached
to
its
parent
,
partially
budded
off
,
just
as
young
lily-bulbs
bud
off
,
or
like
the
young
animals
in
the
fresh-water
polyp
.
In
man
,
in
all
the
higher
terrestrial
animals
,
such
a
method
of
increase
has
disappeared
;
but
even
on
this
earth
it
was
certainly
the
primitive
method
.
Among
the
lower
animals
,
up
even
to
those
first
cousins
of
the
vertebrated
animals
,
the
Tunicates
,
the
two
processes
occur
side
by
side
,
but
finally
the
sexual
method
superseded
its
competitor
altogether
.
On
Mars
,
however
,
just
the
reverse
has
apparently
been
the
case
.
It
is
worthy
of
remark
that
a
certain
speculative
writer
of
quasi-scientific
repute
,
writing
long
before
the
Martian
invasion
,
did
forecast
for
man
a
final
structure
not
unlike
the
actual
Martian
condition
.
His
prophecy
,
I
remember
,
appeared
in
November
or
December
,
1893
,
in
a
long-defunct
publication
,
the
Pall
Mall
Budget
,
and
I
recall
a
caricature
of
it
in
a
pre-Martian
periodical
called
Punch
.
He
pointed
out
--
writing
in
a
foolish
,
facetious
tone
--
that
the
perfection
of
mechanical
appliances
must
ultimately
supersede
limbs
;
the
perfection
of
chemical
devices
,
digestion
;
that
such
organs
as
hair
,
external
nose
,
teeth
,
ears
,
and
chin
were
no
longer
essential
parts
of
the
human
being
,
and
that
the
tendency
of
natural
selection
would
lie
in
the
direction
of
their
steady
diminution
through
the
coming
ages
.
The
brain
alone
remained
a
cardinal
necessity
.
Only
one
other
part
of
the
body
had
a
strong
case
for
survival
,
and
that
was
the
hand
,
"
teacher
and
agent
of
the
brain
.
"
While
the
rest
of
the
body
dwindled
,
the
hands
would
grow
larger
.
There
is
many
a
true
word
written
in
jest
,
and
here
in
the
Martians
we
have
beyond
dispute
the
actual
accomplishment
of
such
a
suppression
of
the
animal
side
of
the
organism
by
the
intelligence
.
To
me
it
is
quite
credible
that
the
Martians
may
be
descended
from
beings
not
unlike
ourselves
,
by
a
gradual
development
of
brain
and
hands
(
the
latter
giving
rise
to
the
two
bunches
of
delicate
tentacles
at
last
)
at
the
expense
of
the
rest
of
the
body
.
