The War of the Worlds - Down To Sleep #10

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello there, and welcome to another episode of Down to Sleep, a podcast of softly spoken
0:04.3	stories to help you drift off and get the rest that you deserve. Today I'm going to be
0:08.4	reading The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. I hope this podcast finds you well. I hope
0:13.9	you're having a fantastic march, and if not, I hope that it gets better for you. Let's see if we
0:18.3	can get you relaxed and down to sleep.
0:24.6	If you would like to support this podcast, if you've been finding it useful and you'd like to continue it as well as get rewards such as extra episodes every single week and continued readings,
0:29.9	including an entire reading of Alice in Wonderland, then you can join me at patreon.com slash
0:34.8	down to sleep. And that's where you can support the podcast and get rewards and
0:38.8	perks and extra episodes thank you let's begin the war of the worlds by h g wells book one the coming
0:48.7	of the martians chapter one the eve of the war no one would have believed in the last years of the 19th century that this world was being
0:58.6	watched keenly and closely, by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own,
1:04.6	that as men busied themselves about their various concerns, they were scrutinized and studied.
1:13.0	Perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water.
1:18.9	With infinite complacency, men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs,
1:24.2	serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that this infusoria
1:29.5	under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of
1:35.6	human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable.
1:43.1	It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days.
1:47.2	At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars,
1:51.1	perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.
1:55.0	Yet, across the Gulf of Space,
1:57.9	minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects
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