The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (spanish books to read txt) 📕

times. He may even now⁠—if I may use the phrase⁠—be wandering on some plesiosaurus-haunted Oolitic coral reef, or beside the lonely saline lakes of the Triassic Age. Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome problems solved? Into the manhood of the race: for I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man’s culminating time! I say, for my own part. He, I know⁠—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made⁠—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so. But to me the future is still black and blank⁠—is a vast ignorance, lit at a few casual places by the memory of his story. And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers⁠—shrivelled now, and brown and flat and brittle⁠—to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man. Endnotes

It may be, of course, that the floor did not slope, but that the museum was built into the side of a hill. —⁠Ed. ↩

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