1 His prejudice against human flesh is no deep-seated instinct.
2 It seemed to me that I had happened upon humanity upon the wane.
3 One triumph of a united humanity over Nature had followed another.
4 At last I saw again the dim shadows of houses, the evidences of decadent humanity.
5 Clearly, at some time in the Long-Ago of human decay the Morlocks' food had run short.
6 Then the thought of the absolute security in which humanity appeared to be living came to my mind.
7 It was not for some time that I could succeed in persuading myself that the thing I had seen was human.
8 After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago.
9 In the end, wisely and carefully we shall readjust the balance of animal and vegetable life to suit our human needs.
10 I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
11 I felt assured now of what it was, and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity.
12 I must confess that my satisfaction with my first theories of an automatic civilization and a decadent humanity did not long endure.
13 Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.
14 When I saw them I ceased abruptly to trouble about the Morlocks, and was only concerned in banishing these signs of the human inheritance from Weena's eyes.
15 The science of our time has attacked but a little department of the field of human disease, but even so, it spreads its operations very steadily and persistently.
16 All the old constellations had gone from the sky, however: that slow movement which is imperceptible in a hundred human lifetimes, had long since rearranged them in unfamiliar groupings.
17 However great their intellectual degradation, the Eloi had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear.
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