But giving drugs to a cat is no joke, Kemp! - H. G. Wells

And before we judge of them too harshly we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished bison and the dodo, but upon its inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?

The sea was silent, the sky was silent; I was alone with the night and silence.

Even now, does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth?