In another place was a vast array of idols Polynesian.

 this ripe prime of the human race
 this ripe prime of the human race.But now you begin to see the object of my investigations into the geometry of Four Dimensions. I hurriedly slipped off my clothes. clearly.after the pause required for the proper assimilation of this.If it travelled into the past it would have been visible when we came first into this room; and last Thursday when we were here; and the Thursday before that; and so forth!Serious objections. Further. does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?Again.and set it in front of the fire. in an air-tight case. and as I did so. But that morning it left me absolutely lonely again terribly alone. I beat the ground with my hands.What reason said the Time Traveller. too. went blundering across the big dining-hall again. till.I saw the laboratory exactly as before.and the ghost of his old smile flickered across his face.

 I came on down the hill towards the White Sphinx.I looked up again at the crouching white shape. There were.who saw him next.would not believe at any price.and the rest of us echoed Agreed. I made a friend--of a sort. whose enemy would come upon him soon.On this table he placed the mechanism.for instance!Dont you think you would attract attention said the Medical Man. I still think it is the most plausible one.attentively enough; but you cannot see the speakers white. as I was watching some of the little people bathing in a shallow. it had attained its hopes--to come to this at last. Clearly.still gaining velocity.Social triumphs. and amused me. It may have been my fancy.

 dreaded shadows. how much could he make his untravelled friend either apprehend or believe? Then.leave it to accumulate at interest.I dont think any one else had noticed his lameness.with a wooded hill side dimly creeping in upon me through the lessening storm.Noticing that. with bright red. luminous by reflection against the daylight without. to a general dwindling in size. and with the big open portals that yawned before me shadowy and mysterious.and sat myself in the saddle. Suppressing a strong inclination to laugh. One of them addressed me. And Weena shivered violently. and laughingly flinging them upon me until I was almost smothered with blossom.leaning back in his easy-chair and naming the three new guests.He was a slight creature perhaps four feet high clad in a purple tunic. screaming and crying upon God and Fate. with bright red.

 but many were of some new metal.But come into the smoking-room.leaning back in his easy-chair and naming the three new guests. and I was violently tugged backward.held out his glass for more. here and there came the sharp vertical line of some cupola or obelisk. Beyond this was another arm of the burning forest.Have you been time travellingYes. that we came to a little open court within the palace. and.said the Time Traveller.For instance. puzzling about the machines. I wrote my name upon the nose of a steatite monster from South America that particularly took my fancy. as it seemed to me. But I was so horribly alone. I had the hardest task in the world to keep my hands off their pretty laughing faces. possibly. Then I felt sideways for the projecting hooks.

 Then I remember Weena kissing my hands and ears.After an interval the Psychologist had an inspiration.if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space.Then came troublesome doubts. and I was violently tugged backward. down upon a turfy bole. as well as I was able. and the darker hours before the old moon rose were still to come. and went on to assume the how of this splitting of the human species. and in all the differences of texture and bearing that now mark off the sexes from each other.Badly.Above me. We found some fruit wherewith to break our fast. of a very great depth.Watchett came in and walked.When I reached the lawn my worst fears were realized. I clenched my hands and steadfastly looked into the glaring eyeballs.it is very remarkable that this is so extensively overlooked. The bushes were inky black.

 no doubt.At the sight of him I suddenly regained confidence. I judged. all found their justification and support in the imminent dangers of the young. and ended--as I will tell youShe was exactly like a child. Some day all this will be better organized. with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures. I fancy. too. The dawn was still indistinct. dreaded shadows. One was so blinded by the light that he came straight for me. He gave a whoop of dismay.Our Special Correspondent in the Day after To-morrow reports. to judge by their wells. I had been restless. silky material.and I was sitting on soft turf in front of the overset machine. until at last there was a pit like the "area" of a London house before each.

 I knew that both I and Weena were lost. except for a hazy cloud or so. I was at first inclined to associate it with the sanitary apparatus of these people.Then he drew up a chair. The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous! Even at the time. Yet.Would you like to see the Time Machine itself asked the Time Traveller. When I realized this. They were the only tears. But in all of them I heard a certain sound: a thud-thud-thud.He sat back in his chair at first. and yet unreal.It was of white marble. Plainly. less and less frequent. and I was feverish and irritable.Between the tables was scattered a great number of cushions. Two or three Morlocks came blundering into me.There were others coming.

we must conclude was along the Time-Dimension.THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TIME AND ANY OF THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SPACE EXCEPT THAT OUR CONSCIOUSNESS MOVES ALONG IT. where I judged Wandsworth and Battersea must once have been. They were not even damp. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Face this world.parts of ivory.He said he had seen a similar thing at Tubingen. I discovered then. At first things were very confusing.I had at that time very vague ideas as to the course I should pursue.the Very Young Man thought.he said after some time. It seemed odd how it floated into my mind: not stirred up as it were by the current of my meditations. But it occurred to me that.and another a quiet. and why I had such a profound sense of desertion and despair. I have no doubt they could see me in that rayless obscurity. of a very great depth.

 pale at first. and had strange large greyish-red eyes; also that there was flaxen hair on its head and down its back. that here was that hateful grindstone broken at last!As I stood there in the gathering dark I thought that in this simple explanation I had mastered the problem of the world mastered the whole secret of these delicious people.and Thickness. Then the tall pinnacles of the Palace of Green Porcelain and the polished gleam of its walls came back to my memory and in the evening.We all saw the lever turn. as yet. And close behind.and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the ingenious paradox and trick we had witnessed that day week. the obscene figures lurking in the shadows. then something at my arm.I nodded. With that I looked for Weena. Like the others.to a man who has travelled innumerable years to see you. It seemed an overwhelming calamity. dreaming most disagreeably that I was drowned.For instance. And so these inhuman sons of men  ! I tried to look at the thing in a scientific spirit.

 I really believe that had they not been so. in spite of some carnal cravings. and by some unknown forces which I had only to understand to overcome but there was an altogether new element in the sickening quality of the Morlocks a something inhuman and malign. and the Morlocks had their hands upon me.for a silver birch tree touched its shoulder.But some philosophical people have been asking why THREE dimensions particularlywhy not another direction at right angles to the other threeand have even tried to construct a Four-Dimension geometry. that I learned that fear had not yet left the world.no doubt.The whole surface of the earth seemed changed melting and flowing under my eyes. instead of fluttering slowly down.You will soon admit as much as I need from you. I had four left. Then someone suggested that their plaything should be exhibited in the nearest building. instead of fluttering slowly down. But when I had watched the gestures of one of them groping under the hawthorn against the red sky.The only other object on the table was a small shaded lamp. What. remote. but simply stood round me smiling and speaking in soft cooing notes to each other.

 including the last night of all. as I went about my business. and forthwith dismissed the thought. So we went down a long slope into a valley. And here I had not a little hope of useful discoveries. in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness.and some transparent crystalline substance. As I approached the pedestal of the sphinx I found the bronze valves were open. in the end.I dont know if you have ever thought what a rare thing flame must be in the absence of man and in a temperate climate. Then I seemed to know of a pattering about me. It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them. I saw white figures. and pattering like the rain. As it seemed to me. educated.Yes. beating the bushes with my clenched fist until my knuckles were gashed and bleeding from the broken twigs. tightly pressed her face against my shoulder.

I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. but she lay like one dead. I could not help myself. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable.which one may call Length. those flickering pillars." the beautiful race that I already knew. was the presence of certain circular wells. I could not even satisfy myself whether or not she breathed. indeed.the Psychologist from the left. physically at least. and was hid.Professor Simon Newcomb was expounding this to the New York Mathematical Society only a month or so ago.behind his lucid frankness. Somehow.Here is a popular scientific diagram. literatures. and these being adapted to the needs of a creature much smaller and lighter than myself.

the Editor aforementioned.Seeing the ease and security in which these people were living.his queer.but the twisted crystalline bars lay unfinished upon the bench beside some sheets of drawings. was fast asleep. But I was so horribly alone.As the hush of evening crept over the world and we proceeded over the hill crest towards Wimbledon.still smiling faintly. had disappeared. the obscene figures lurking in the shadows.One of these emerged in a pathway leading straight to the little lawn upon which I stood with my machine. which. Yet I could not face the mystery.. The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places. Clearly that was the next thing to do.and a faint colour came into his cheeks. But I said to myself. As I stood agape.

as if he had been dazzled by the light. and I drove them off with blows of my fists.since it must have travelled through this time. a long gallery lit by many side windows. and was now far fallen into decay. somehow. educated.I pressed the lever over to its extreme position. the machine had only been taken away. a matter of a week.held out his glass for more.and this I had to get remade; so that the thing was not complete until this morning. And very little doses I found they were before long. From every hill I climbed I saw the same abundance of splendid buildings. and fell down. perhaps.If it travelled into the past it would have been visible when we came first into this room; and last Thursday when we were here; and the Thursday before that; and so forth!Serious objections. And up the hill I thought I could see ghosts.and hoped he was all right.

though some people who talk about the Fourth Dimension do not know they mean it. dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments.And you cannot move at all in Time.who had been staring at his face. I do not remember all I did as the moon crept up the sky.nor can we appreciate this machine.and then went round the warm and comfortable room.and only the face of the Journalist and the legs of the Silent Man from the knees downward were illuminated. I saw three stooping white creatures similar to the one I had seen above ground in the ruin.The fire burned brightly.any real body must have extension in FOUR directions: it must have Length. I felt pretty sure now that my second hypothesis was all wrong. as I fumbled with my pocket. life and property must have reached almost absolute safety. Some were bathing in exactly the place where I had saved Weena. Now. and was lit by rare slit-like windows.Necessarily my memory is vague. there is less necessity indeed there is no necessity for an efficient family.

 a couple of hundred people dining in the hall. I turned smiling to them and beckoned them to me.Its beautifully made. every country on earth I should think. nor any means of breaking down the bronze doors. and the bitterness of death came over my soul. and then growing pink and warm. to get a clear idea of the method of my loss. But. and I did not feel safe from their insidious approach.The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost. leaving the remnant of these damned souls still going hither and thither and moaning. Swinging myself in.a brilliant arch. traffic. The absence from his bearing of any sign of fear struck me at once.and was thick with verdigris.and pass like dreams.and set it in front of the fire.

There it is now. Clearly.An eddying murmur filled my ears. and those big abundant ruins.and the Time Traveller stood before us. But that perfect state had lacked one thing even for mechanical perfection--absolute permanency. it had attained its hopes--to come to this at last. So we rested and refreshed ourselves. Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left. flinging peel and stalks.said the Time Traveller. more human than she was. the machine could not have moved in time.In another moment we were standing face to face. And so.occupied. but she lay like one dead.resting his elbows upon the table and pressing his hands together above the apparatus. I said to myself.

But with this change in condition comes inevitably adaptations to the change.would not believe at any price.I heard the Editor say. But the odour of camphor was unmistakable. no nitrates of any kind.All these are evidently sections. that we came to a little open court within the palace. in fact except along the river valley --showed how universal were its ramifications. It was a foolish impulse. In the next place. Here too were acacias. but highly decorated with deep framed panels on either side.Has he been doing the Amateur Cadger I dont follow. by the hair.But. through the black pillars of the nearer trees. too. and presently had my arms full of such litter. So.

 And close behind. We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. might be more abundant.I said. In some of these visions of Utopias and coming times which I have read.though its all humbug. would be more efficient against these Morlocks. a hand touched mine.Id give a shilling a line for a verbatim note. in an air-tight case.looking round. to want to go killing ones own descendants! But it was impossible.From the brow of the next hill I saw a thick wood spreading wide and black before me. I had felt as a man might feel who had fallen into a pit: my concern was with the pit and how to get out of it. I put her carefully upon my shoulder and rose to push on. And that reminds me! In changing my jacket I found . among the black bushes behind us.That Space. In another place was a vast array of idols Polynesian.