«And we men, the creatures who inhabit this earth,
must be to them at least as alien and lowly as are the monkeys and lemurs to
us.
The intellectual side of man already admits that life is an incessant struggle for existence, and it would seem that this too is the belief of the minds upon Mars.
Their world is far gone in its cooling and this world is still crowded with life, but crowded only with what they regard as inferior animals.»
Scene no 12:
Flying Saucers (Space Explorer Ship X8 and Flying Saucer X-7, Modern Toys MASUDAYA, made in Japan in the 1960s, lithographed tinplate, battery operated with bump and go
action and flashing lights).
The text passage: From the novel THE WAR OF THE WORLDS, by H.G. Wells (The Coming of the
Martians / The Eve of the War).
