“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 […]” ~from THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898) by H.G. Wells (Everyman’s Library)
Herbert George Wells – greater than man
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