<f205r.P.10;W> and before we judge of them too harshly we must remem -
<f205r.P.11;W> ber what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has -
<f205r.P.12;W> wrought not only upon animals such as the vanished bison -
<f205r.P.13;W> and the dodo but upon its inferior races the tasmanians -
<f205r.P.14;W> in spite of their human likeness were entirely swept out of -
<f205r.P.15;W> existence in a war of extermination waged by european immi -
<f205r.P.16;W> grants in the space of fifty years are we such apostles of -
<f205r.P.17;W> mercy as to complain if the martians warred in the same -
<f205r.P.18;W> spirit =
<f205r.P.19;W> the martians seem to have calculated their descent with -
<f205r.P.20;W> amazing subtletytheir mathematical learning is evidently -
<f205r.P.21;W> far in excess of oursand to have carried out their prepara -
<f205r.P.22;W> tions with a wellnigh perfect unanimity had our instru -
<f205r.P.23;W> ments permitted it we might have seen the gathering trouble -
<f205r.P.24;W> far back in the nineteenth century men like schiaparelli -
<f205r.P.25;W> watched the red planetit is odd bythebye that for count -
<f205r.P.26;W> less centuries mars has been the star of warbut failed to -
<f205r.P.27;W> interpret the fluctuating appearances of the markings they -
<f205r.P.28;W> mapped so well all that time the martians must have been -
<f205r.P.29;W> getting ready =