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Wells, H.G.
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
IT is doubtful whether the gift was innate.
The War of the Worlds
NO one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinised and studied perhaps almost as closely as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
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