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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells: "What are you doing?" I said presently. "What plans
have you made?"
He hesitated.
"Well, it's like this," he said. "What have we to do? We
have to invent a sort of life where men can live and breed,
and be sufficiently secure to bring the children up. Yes--wait
a bit, and I'll make it clearer what I think ought to be done.
The tame ones will go like all tame beasts; in a few genera-
tions they'll be big, beautiful, rich-blooded, stupid--rubbish!
The risk is that we who keep wild will go savage--de-
generate into a sort of big, savage rat. . . . You see, how I
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