War of the Worlds

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 as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.

Nimeni nu ar fi crezut in ultimii ani ai secolului al XIX-lea ca aceasta lume era privita cu atentie si indeaproape de inteligente mai mari decat ale omului si totusi la fel de muritoare ca a lui; ca, pe masura ce barbatii se ocupau de diversele lor preocupari, erau scrutati si studiati, poate aproape la fel de ingust ca un om cu microscop care ar putea examina creaturile trecatoare care roiesc si se inmultesc intr-o picatura de apa.