For though he was kindly received by a mild, diminutive people who were all strict vegetarians and lived entirely on fruit – horses, cattle, sheep, and dogs having become extinct, like the Icthyosaurus – he was compelled to come to the conclusion that the race had degenerated.
We may at once say, however, that though he writes “of what the world will be when the years have died away,” his record is anything but a “gay” picture nor are his revelations likely to excite regret on the part of his readers at having been born 802,000 years too soon. The machine itself is described, though, it is perhaps needless to say, not in so detailed a fashion that even the most ingenious of mechanicians would be able to construct one but the greater part of the story describes the inventor’s voyage through the coming cycles and his experience of the Thames valley in the year Eight Hundred and Two Thousand Seven Hundred and One.
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