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Without
the
body
the
brain
would
,
of
course
,
become
a
mere
selfish
intelligence
,
without
any
of
the
emotional
substratum
of
the
human
being
.
The
last
salient
point
in
which
the
systems
of
these
creatures
differed
from
ours
was
in
what
one
might
have
thought
a
very
trivial
particular
.
Micro-organisms
,
which
cause
so
much
disease
and
pain
on
earth
,
have
either
never
appeared
upon
Mars
or
Martian
sanitary
science
eliminated
them
ages
ago
.
A
hundred
diseases
,
all
the
fevers
and
contagions
of
human
life
,
consumption
,
cancers
,
tumours
and
such
morbidities
,
never
enter
the
scheme
of
their
life
.
And
speaking
of
the
differences
between
the
life
on
Mars
and
terrestrial
life
,
I
may
allude
here
to
the
curious
suggestions
of
the
red
weed
.
Apparently
the
vegetable
kingdom
in
Mars
,
instead
of
having
green
for
a
dominant
colour
,
is
of
a
vivid
blood-red
tint
.
At
any
rate
,
the
seeds
which
the
Martians
(
intentionally
or
accidentally
)
brought
with
them
gave
rise
in
all
cases
to
red-coloured
growths
.
Only
that
known
popularly
as
the
red
weed
,
however
,
gained
any
footing
in
competition
with
terrestrial
forms
.
The
red
creeper
was
quite
a
transitory
growth
,
and
few
people
have
seen
it
growing
.
For
a
time
,
however
,
the
red
weed
grew
with
astonishing
vigour
and
luxuriance
.
It
spread
up
the
sides
of
the
pit
by
the
third
or
fourth
day
of
our
imprisonment
,
and
its
cactus-like
branches
formed
a
carmine
fringe
to
the
edges
of
our
triangular
window
.
And
afterwards
I
found
it
broadcast
throughout
the
country
,
and
especially
wherever
there
was
a
stream
of
water
.
The
Martians
had
what
appears
to
have
been
an
auditory
organ
,
a
single
round
drum
at
the
back
of
the
head-body
,
and
eyes
with
a
visual
range
not
very
different
from
ours
except
that
,
according
to
Philips
,
blue
and
violet
were
as
black
to
them
.
It
is
commonly
supposed
that
they
communicated
by
sounds
and
tentacular
gesticulations
;
this
is
asserted
,
for
instance
,
in
the
able
but
hastily
compiled
pamphlet
(
written
evidently
by
someone
not
an
eye-witness
of
Martian
actions
)
to
which
I
have
already
alluded
,
and
which
,
so
far
,
has
been
the
chief
source
of
information
concerning
them
.
Now
no
surviving
human
being
saw
so
much
of
the
Martians
in
action
as
I
did
.
I
take
no
credit
to
myself
for
an
accident
,
but
the
fact
is
so
.
And
I
assert
that
I
watched
them
closely
time
after
time
,
and
that
I
have
seen
four
,
five
,
and
(
once
)
six
of
them
sluggishly
performing
the
most
elaborately
complicated
operations
together
without
either
sound
or
gesture
.
Their
peculiar
hooting
invariably
preceded
feeding
;
it
had
no
modulation
,
and
was
,
I
believe
,
in
no
sense
a
signal
,
but
merely
the
expiration
of
air
preparatory
to
the
suctional
operation
.
I
have
a
certain
claim
to
at
least
an
elementary
knowledge
of
psychology
,
and
in
this
matter
I
am
convinced
--
as
firmly
as
I
am
convinced
of
anything
--
that
the
Martians
interchanged
thoughts
without
any
physical
intermediation
.
And
I
have
been
convinced
of
this
in
spite
of
strong
preconceptions
.
Before
the
Martian
invasion
,
as
an
occasional
reader
here
or
there
may
remember
,
I
had
written
with
some
little
vehemence
against
the
telepathic
theory
.
The
Martians
wore
no
clothing
.
Their
conceptions
of
ornament
and
decorum
were
necessarily
different
from
ours
;
and
not
only
were
they
evidently
much
less
sensible
of
changes
of
temperature
than
we
are
,
but
changes
of
pressure
do
not
seem
to
have
affected
their
health
at
all
seriously
.
Yet
though
they
wore
no
clothing
,
it
was
in
the
other
artificial
additions
to
their
bodily
resources
that
their
great
superiority
over
man
lay
.
We
men
,
with
our
bicycles
and
road-skates
,
our
Lilienthal
soaring-machines
,
our
guns
and
sticks
and
so
forth
,
are
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
appliances
,
perhaps
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
remark
that
even
on
this
earth
Nature
has
never
hit
upon
the
wheel
,
or
has
preferred
other
expedients
to
its
development
.
And
not
only
did
the
Martians
either
not
know
of
(
which
is
incredible
)
,
or
abstain
from
,
the
wheel
,
but
in
their
apparatus
singularly
little
use
is
made
of
the
fixed
pivot
or
relatively
fixed
pivot
,
with
circular
motions
thereabout
confined
to
one
plane
.
Almost
all
the
joints
of
the
machinery
present
a
complicated
system
of
sliding
parts
moving
over
small
but
beautifully
curved
friction
bearings
.
And
while
upon
this
matter
of
detail
,
it
is
remarkable
that
the
long
leverages
of
their
machines
are
in
most
cases
actuated
by
a
sort
of
sham
musculature
of
the
disks
in
an
elastic
sheath
;
these
disks
become
polarised
and
drawn
closely
and
powerfully
together
when
traversed
by
a
current
of
electricity
.
In
this
way
the
curious
parallelism
to
animal
motions
,
which
was
so
striking
and
disturbing
to
the
human
beholder
,
was
attained
.
Such
quasi-muscles
abounded
in
the
crablike
handling-machine
which
,
on
my
first
peeping
out
of
the
slit
,
I
watched
unpacking
the
cylinder
.
It
seemed
infinitely
more
alive
than
the
actual
Martians
lying
beyond
it
in
the
sunset
light
,
panting
,
stirring
ineffectual
tentacles
,
and
moving
feebly
after
their
vast
journey
across
space
.
While
I
was
still
watching
their
sluggish
motions
in
the
sunlight
,
and
noting
each
strange
detail
of
their
form
,
the
curate
reminded
me
of
his
presence
by
pulling
violently
at
my
arm
.
I
turned
to
a
scowling
face
,
and
silent
,
eloquent
lips
.
He
wanted
the
slit
,
which
permitted
only
one
of
us
to
peep
through
;
and
so
I
had
to
forego
watching
them
for
a
time
while
he
enjoyed
that
privilege
.
When
I
looked
again
,
the
busy
handling-machine
had
already
put
together
several
of
the
pieces
of
apparatus
it
had
taken
out
of
the
cylinder
into
a
shape
having
an
unmistakable
likeness
to
its
own
;
and
down
on
the
left
a
busy
little
digging
mechanism
had
come
into
view
,
emitting
jets
of
green
vapour
and
working
its
way
round
the
pit
,
excavating
and
embanking
in
a
methodical
and
discriminating
manner
.
This
it
was
which
had
caused
the
regular
beating
noise
,
and
the
rhythmic
shocks
that
had
kept
our
ruinous
refuge
quivering
.
It
piped
and
whistled
as
it
worked
.
So
far
as
I
could
see
,
the
thing
was
without
a
directing
Martian
at
all
.
