More from H. G. Wells
- The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914), p. 299
- The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 41
- Things to Come (1936)
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Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life. I thought of their unfathomable distance, and the slow inevitable drift of their movements out of the unknown past into the unknown future.