1 Looking closer at their faces, I saw some strange
difference in their sweet prettiness. They all had the same
hair and this came to a sharp end at the neck and
below the cars. There was none growing on their faces
and their cars were very small Their little came to a
point and their eyes were large and gentle
Because they didn't try to speak to me, but simply stood
smiling and speaking to each other, I began the
conversation. I pointed to the Time Machine and to
myself. Then, after thinking for a moment how to describe
time, I' to the sun. At once, a pretty little figure
dressed in purple and white did the same and then made
the sound of
For a moment I was very surprised, though the meaning
of his movement was clear enough The question had
come into my mind suddenly: were these people_?
I had always expected that people living about 800.000
years in the future would have much greater knowledge
than us in science, art everything
But one of them had asked me a very simple question,
which showed him to be on the level of intelligence of one
of our five-year-old children. He had asked me, in fact, if
had come from the sun in a thunderstorm!
A feeling of sadness came into my mind. For a moment,
felt that I had built the Time Machine for no reason at all​

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