The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

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Герберт Уэллс. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

BOOK I. THE DAWN OF THE FOOD

CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOOD

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CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM

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CHAPTER THE THIRD. THE GIANT RATS

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CHAPTER THE FOURTH. THE GIANT CHILDREN

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CHAPTER THE FIFTH. THE MINIMIFICENCE OF MR. BENSINGTON

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BOOK II. THE FOOD IN THE VILLAGE

CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE COMING OF THE FOOD

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CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE BRAT GIGANTIC

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BOOK III. THE HARVEST OF THE FOOD

CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE ALTERED WORLD

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CHAPTER THE SECOND. THE GIANT LOVERS

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CHAPTER THE THIRD

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CHAPTER THE FOURTH

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CHAPTER THE FIFTH

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In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called – "Scientists." They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were – that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, and "Scientists" they are, and when they emerge to any sort of publicity, "distinguished scientists" and "eminent scientists" and "well-known scientists" is the very least we call them.

Certainly both Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood quite merited any of these terms long before they came upon the marvellous discovery of which this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a former president of the Chemical Society, and Professor Redwood was Professor of Physiology in the Bond Street College of the London University, and he had been grossly libelled by the anti-vivisectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth.

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And then the Wasps began their career.

It was late in July and nearly a week before the hens escaped from Hickleybrow that the first of the big wasps was killed. The report of it appeared in several papers, but I do not know whether the news reached Mr. Bensington, much less whether he connected it with the general laxity of method that prevailed in the Experimental Farm.

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