It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. - P9
It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a sudden stop thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. - P8
With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in thir assurance of their empire over matter. - P8
BOOK ONE THE COMING OF THE MARTIANSCHAPTER ONE THE EVE OF THE WAR 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 mortal as his own;that men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised, and stupidied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. - P8
■ 저자 소개허버트 조지 웰스(,1866년 9월 21일 ~ 1946년 8월 13일)는 과학 소설로 유명한 영국의 소설가이자 문명비평가입니다. 또한 역사, 정치,사회에 대한 여러 장르에도 다양한 작품을 남겼습니다.쥘 베른, 휴고 건스백과 함께 ‘과학 소설의 아버지‘로 불립니다. <<타임머신>>, <<투명인간>> 등 과학 소설 100여편을 썼습니다. - P3