“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater
than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their
various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly
as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm
and multiply in a drop of water.”“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century
that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater
than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their
various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly
as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm
and multiply in a drop of water.”