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... H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Time Machine by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells The Time Machine by H(erbert) G(eorge) Wells 1898 1898 1898 1898 1898 I I I I I THE ... ...id Filby. ‘Of course a solid body may exist. All real things—’ 4 The Time Machine ‘So most people think. But wait a moment. Can an instan- taneous cu... ...own,’ said the Medical Man. ‘Easier, far easier down than up.’ 6 The Time Machine ‘ And you cannot move at all in Time, you cannot get away from the ... ...h fell upon the model. There were also perhaps a dozen candles 8 The Time Machine about, two in brass candlesticks upon the mantel and several in sco... ... hands together above the apparatus, ‘is only a model. It is my plan for a machine to travel through time. You will notice that it looks singu- larly ... ...t you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed over, sends the machine gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. This s... ... of a time traveller. Presently I am going to press the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future Time, and disappear. Have...

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...Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE .............................................................................................................................................. 4 OF THOSE CALLED ...........................................................

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... University is an equal opportunity university. Contents THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE ...................................................................... ... the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling 1895 THE GOD FROM THE MACHINE Hit a man an’ help a woman, an’ ye can’t be far wrong anyways. —Max... ...eordie tramp—one of those lumber- ing, dish-bottomed coal-barges where the machinery is tied up with a string and the plates are rivetted with putty. ... ...ing dishgraceful!” ‘The fork av his hand was black wid the backspit av the machine. So he tuk the orf ’cer bhoy’s revolver. Ye may look, Sorr, by my f... ...When due and sufficient reasons have been given, weighed and approved, the machinery moves forward, and the dreamer of dreams and the seer of visions ...

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...erican humorist and writer Mark Twain. The work is a very early example of time travel in literature, anticipating by six years H. G. Wells' The Time Machine of 1895 (however, unlike Wells, Twain does not give any real explanation of his protagonist's traveling in time). Some early editions are entitled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur....

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...y that he had been sitting with his nether extremities in some complicated machinery, a threshing-machine, say, or one of those hay-making furies. But... ...em waits the jest of the unexpected treadle. You try at least to walk your machine in an easy manner, and whack!—you are rubbing your shin. So out of ... ...rlock is presently explaining, by the help of the minor injuries, that the machine ridden is an old-fashioned affair with a fork instead of the diamon... ... at first, rises a vision of a nightly struggle, of two dark figures and a machine in a dark road,—the road, to be explicit, from Roehampton to Putney... ...him. “Why, cycling, of course.” “Y ou’re never going to ride that dreadful machine of yours, day after day?” said Miss Howe of the Costume Department.... ...river’s inexperience and offered such advice as occurred to him. “Have the machine thoroughly well oiled,” said Briggs, “carry one or two lemons with ... ...ourself to death the first day, and sit upright. Never lose control of the machine, and always sound the bell on every possible op- portunity. You min... .... It’s one of the worst things you can do to run over a dog. Never let the machine buckle—there was a man killed only the other day through his wheel ... ...cculent respiration of the pipe. Hoopdriver rode off into Dreamland on his machine, and was scarcely there before he was pitched back into the world o...

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... the stuff he was going to turn 15 H. G . Wells out than if he had been a machine that makes guns. This was a possible substance, and he was going to... ...ch im- mersed in certain interesting problems concerning a Cavorite flying machine (neglecting the resistance of the air and one or two other points) ... ...ever and again came gusts of turmoil, hammering, the clanging and throb of machinery, and presently—the bellowing of great beasts! 61 H. G . Wells Ch... ... up a ravine, and then we passed over a place of sounds, sounds of beating machinery as if some huge hall of industry came near the surface there. And... ...ings, and who ever got to any sort of understanding with ants?” “But these machines and clothing! No, I don’t hold with you, Bedford. The difference i... ...ce we had recovered from the stupefaction of the fungus was a vast mass of machinery in active move- ment, whose flying and whirling parts were visibl... ...Men in the Moon beings about us. As each of the three dangling arms of the machine plunged down, there was a clank and then a roar- ing, and out of th... ...eni- tes upon it seemed, and I realised the full immensity of cav- ern and machine. I looked from this tremendous affair to the faces of the Selenites... ... gone some paces unheeded. He came back and stood between us and the great machine. I avoided seeing him, because I guessed somehow that his idea was ...

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...y had made the most 14 The World Set Free partial of substitutions. Steam machinery and factory pro- duction were visibly revolutionising the conditi... ... blow us and everything about us to fragments; if I could turn it into the machinery that lights this city, it could keep Edinburgh brightly lit for a... ...and by the autumn of 1954 a gigantic replacement of industrial methods and machinery was in progress all about the habitable globe. Small wonder was t... ...rto been the sole driving force of the aeroplane without overweighting the machine, and men found themselves possessed of an instrument of flight that... ..., were being flung out of employment by the superior efficiency of the new machinery, the rapid fall in the cost of transit was destroying high land v... ...ges and threaten the very existence of the otherwise inattentive political machine. The world was so little governed that with the very com- ing of pl... ...t a very good aviator, he con- fesses he was always a little afraid of his machine—there was excellent reason for every one to be afraid of those clum... ... and extravagant filthi- ness still astonish the visitors to the museum of machinery at South Kensington. He mentions running over a dog and com- plai... ...earance of the atomic engine with the zest of masculine youth in all fresh machinery, and it is evident that for some time he failed to connect the ru...

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...ppings from the illustrated press. It may be that a miner is a complicated machine for cutting coal and voting on a ballot-paper. It may be that coal-... ...how, granted that men are men still, that not all of them are bits, parts, machine-sections, then we have added another tragic possibility to the list... ...I dislike so extremely. Now it really became a case of men working against machines, flesh and blood working against iron, for a livelihood. Still, it... ... now I hardly know my own pits, with the great electric plants and strange machinery, and the new coal-cut- ters—iron men, as the colliers call them—e... ...or one minute pulled themselves up and conquered their mania for money and machine excite- ment, the whole thing would be solved.—Would you like me to... ...to be able to extricate a soft sort of John Halifax, Gentleman, out of the machine I’m mixed up in, and keep him to gladden the con- nubial hearth. I’...

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...was Ted lofty with her. He was a natural mechanic, a maker and tinkerer of machines; he lisped in blueprints for the blueprints came. “That’ll do now!... ... like a bum.” “Wish there were more folks that were so generous with their machines,” dutifully said the victim of benevolence. “Oh, no, ‘tain’t a que... ... superior and powerful, like a shuttle of polished steel darting in a vast machine. As always he ignored the next two blocks, decayed blocks not yet r... ...d and twenty-six bones. But I don’t figure I was stuck, George, not a bit. Machine looks brand new now—not that it’s so darned old, of course; had it ... ...y. Regarding each new intricate mechanism—metal lathe, two-jet carburetor, machine gun, oxyacetylene welder—he learned one good realistic-sound- ing p... ...f being technical and initiated. The customer joined him in the worship of machinery, and they came buoyantly up to the tenement and began that examin... ...brary. “Zenith’s a city with gigantic power—gigantic build- ings, gigantic machines, gigantic transportation,” medi- tated Doane. “I hate your city. I... ...ans: fellows with hair on their chests and smiles in their eyes and adding-machines in their offices. We’re not doing any boasting, but we like oursel... ...t and Cleve- land with their renowned factories, Cincinnati with its great machine-tool and soap products, Pittsburg and Birming- ham with their steel...

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...g, dangerous underworld, mindless, inhuman. They sounded also like strange machines, heavy, oiled. The volup- tuousness was like that of machinery, co... ...etimes she beat her wings like a new Daphne, turning not into a tree but a machine. And yet, she was overcome by the nostalgia. She struggled to get m... ...e glamour, their voices were full of an intolerable deep resonance, like a machine’s burr- ing, a music more maddening than the siren’s long ago. She ... ...But he was really imper- sonal, he had the fineness of an elegant piece of machinery. He was too cold, too destructive to care really for women, too g... ... ally he detested and despised them. In the mass they fasci- nated him, as machinery fascinated him. They were a new sort of machinery to him—but inca... ...here came a constant smell of lun- cheon from below, and puffs of hot oily machinery; the jour- ney took hours and hours and hours; and for miles, lit... ... had had enough. For where was life to be found? No flowers grow upon busy machinery, there is no sky to a routine, there is no space to a rotary moti... ...e ugly and uncouth, but they were his instru- ments. He was the God of the machine. They made way for his motor-car automatically, slowly. He did not ... ...ty, when begins the fight for equality of possessions? But the God was the machine. Each man claimed equality in the Godhead of the great productive m...

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... the harangue, he gurgled out his pursy chuckle of a cough- laugh (for the machinery of laughter took some time to get in motion, and seemed crank and... ...ok back on it; for my whole Universe, physical and spiritual, was as yet a Machine! However, such a con- scious, recognized groundplan, the truest I h... ...ce here. Into the Hofrath’s Institute, with its extraordinary schemes, and machinery of Corresponding Boards and the like, we shall not so much as gla... ...st live in it the while), what better, what other, than the Representative Machine will serve your turn? Meanwhile, however, mock me not with the name... ...w of Nature that she be constant?’ cries an illuminated class: ‘Is not the Machine of the Universe fixed to move by unalterable rules?’ Prob- able eno... ... Universe, which no one whom it so pleases can be prevented from calling a Machine, 181 Thomas Carlyle does move by the most unalterable rules. And n... ... reason in Nature or in Art why I should: unless, indeed, I am a mere Work-Machine, for whom the divine gift of Thought were no other than the terrest... ...Or better, I might call them two boundless, and indeed unexampled Electric Machines (turned by the ‘Machinery of Society’), with batteries of opposite...

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...hurt himself. You must be working against friction.” “Friction! I’m like a machine without oil. I’m grinding to death…. And it’s so damned important I... ...make—gear-box over the back axle for example—gets all the vibration. Whole machine rather on the flimsy side. Still—” 20 The Secret Places of the Hea... ... are wasting energy upon internal friction. “But isn’t that inevitable? No machine is perfectly efficient. No man either. There is al- ways a waste. W... ...tence. It was near T aplow station that the mutual exasperation of man and machine was brought to a crisis by the clumsy emergence of a laundry cart f... ...excuse for her mischief. See what a fantastic thing I am when you take the machine to pieces! I have been a busy and responsible man through- out my l... ...d no need for wars. Will they live in palaces? Will they all be healthy? … Machines will wait on them. No! I can’t imagine it. Per- haps I shall dream...

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..., oh, thank you!” One of the men was clamoring at Kennicott, “I brought my machine down to take you home, doc.” “Fine business, Sam!” cried Kennicott;... ...arricade of green and gold wheels, of shafts and sulky seats, belonging to machinery of which Carol knew nothing—potato-planters, manure-spreaders, si... ...ellows, and a man was pasting up red bills with lovely pictures of washing-machines on them. and the jeweler was laying out bracelets and wrist- watch... ...ndinavian farmers down there so: their big red barns and silos and milking-machines and everything. Do you all know that lonely Lutheran church, with ... ...farmer sitting on sacks of wheat in a bobsled argued with the wheat-buyer; machinery within the mill boomed and whined, water gurgled in the ice- free... ...ese tenant farmers that pretend they have so much trouble getting seed and machinery. Papa says they sim- ply won’t pay their debts. He says he’s sure... ... is the doc- tor. Say, uh, send me up a team. Guess snow’s too thick for a machine. Going eight miles south. All right. Huh? The hell I will! Don’t yo... ...ice was artificially hearty. He looked absently at Carol. He was a medical machine now, not a domestic machine. “What is it, Carrie?” he droned. “No h... ...act, he thinks he’s almost got human intelligence, but one time he had his machine out in the rain, and the poor fish, he hadn’t put on chains, and th...

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...the quick buzzing sound of unceasing activity; the puffing and rattling of machines, the creaking of looms, the humming of wheels, the whirling of str... ...pinning-mill,” Valentina Mihailovna remarked. “It’s all the same, my dear, machines are used in both, and he’s a mechanic.” “But supposing he turns ou... ... was going badly. Money was simply thrown away for no reason whatever. The machines turned out to be of a very poor kind; many of them were quite su- ... ... with every little detail, was master there in fact. He laid his hand on a machine as a rider on his horse’s neck; he poked a wheel with his finger an...

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...very country where they have set foot. I would as soon hear of an infernal machine in the country as a Pole!” “Poles deserve justice as well as other ... ... for by his uncle, who offered an exhibition of his model- farm-buildings, machines, cattle, &c. Fain would Viola and I have gone in the train of the ... ...men to clear the space whence it would be easiest to see the action of the machinery. I made a rush after him, and found him all over dust, dragging a... ... essays and poems where he had tried to work out his thought; fragments of machines, the toys of his constructive brain, among which the travellers fo... ... of the workmen directed me to him, as he was helping to put in order some machine for hoisting that was out of gear. “Bless you, ma’am,” said the man...

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...themselves, whilst they were discuss- ing the merits of the brilliant blue machine which was trav- elling along the furrows. It was rather a trial of ... ...I only wish my wheat may be as well drilled with Uncle Roger’s new-fangled machines.” “That is right, grandpapa,” said Queen Bee; “you hate them as mu... ...you don’t look forward to the time when we are to have our hay made by one machine, our sheep washed by another, our turkeys crammed by a third— ay, a... ...s boys blown up at every third explosion.” “Is Uncle Roger so very fond of machines?” said Henrietta. “He goes about to cattle shows and agricultural ...

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...sible, relatively necessary factor in the big whirring social and official machine. That fixed obligation was the fact he could think of with the leas... ...o; but in my time there used to be half a dozen fagged ‘hands’ to tend the machine, and Miss Viner was one of them. I’m glad she’s out of it, poor gir... ...ce of things-as-they-came, as though she had been some wonderful automatic machine which recorded facts but had not yet been perfected to the point of... ... fib about it? Those poor young things that have to go about among us like machines—oh, if you knew how I pity them!” “If you pity her, why not let he...

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...ons whom their Bertrands do not even know by sight; a pivot in the obscure machinery that disposes of misery and things unclean; one of those men, in ... ...he most, to be put into the Museum of Arts and Crafts, among the automatic machines, and labeled La Fayette; while the prince at whom everybody flings... ... Even now it was clear to him that, once involved in this intricate social machinery, he must attach himself to a spoke of the wheel that was to turn ... ...to ring the changes, and giving you a sight of the mechanism of the social machine; but your first fright will go off like a conscript’s terror on the... ...t and he is offensive. But a man is a god when he is like you; he is not a machine covered with a skin, but a theatre in which the greatest sentiments... ...fash- ioning a man into a vise or a thumbscrew, and he becomes part of the machinery of Government. Wherefore, M. Gondureau, who seemed to know someth... ...rt, I stand here single-handed against a Government and a whole subsidized machinery of tribunals and police, and I am a match for them all.” “Ye gods... ...ianchon. He felt the old man’s pulse, and laid a hand over his heart. “The machinery works still; more is the pity, in his state it would be better fo... ...ful traces of the struggle between life and death that was going on in the machine; for that kind of cerebral consciousness that distinguishes between...

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...th and early manhood have given place now to more scientific and efficient machinery. When I was a boy, Bromstead, which is now a borough, was ruled b... ...reluctantly agreed to stimulate them by money payments. The State set up a machinery of exami- nation both in Science and Art and for the elementary s... ... was destined to alter the scale of every human affair. That something was machinery and a vague energetic dis- position to improve material things. I... ..., they did not want their children made strange to them. There was all the machinery and all the men needed to teach the old subjects, and none to tea... ...ic reconstruction at which I aimed. I wanted to build up a new educational machine altogether for the governing class out of a consolidated sys- tem o... ...best tell ‘em something of how things are in Lancashire, what with the new machines and all that,” he speculated at last with red reflections in his t... ... ruffled and his whole being rhetorical, and measured him against the huge machine of government muddled and mys- terious. Oh! but I was perplexed! An... ...unds and colours, in the very odours of empire, its wonderful discovery of machinery and cotton waste and the under officer and the engineer, and “sho... ...are being done?” “Oh!—no doubt of it. It’s one of the parts of the British machinery—that doesn’t show… . But nobody else could do it. “Two people,” s...

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...ith the ends hanging and flapping down our backs—an idea brought from the Orient and used by tourists all over Europe. Harris carried the little watch... ... mile away, now—perhaps it was the murmur of a storm; and now it was nearer—not a quarter of a mile away; was it the muffled rasping and grinding of d... ...ion—said their pauses and accompanying movements were so continuous and regular that a stranger would think himself in the presence of a couple of aut... ...t was upon me, and I said that as I had committed myself I would not back down; I would ascend Mont Blanc if it cost me my life. I told the man to sla... ...h column; no police- court reports; no reports of proceedings of higher courts; no information about prize-fights or other dog-fights, horse- races, w...

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...9 tique clocks. There was something, however, in the appear ance of this machine which caused me to regard it more attentively. While I gazed direct... ...able! Still I quivered in every nerve to think how slight a sinking of the machinery would precipitate that keen glistening axe upon my bosom. It was ... ... horror upon the stone floor of the prison, when the motion of the hellish machine ceased and I beheld it drawn up by some invisible force through the...