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...RTH By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publicat... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylv... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 H G Wells THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH By H.G. WELLS BOOK I THE DAWN OF ... ... OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH By H.G. WELLS BOOK I THE DAWN OF THE FOOD THE FOOD OF THE GODS CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER THE FIRST... ...E DISCO THE DISCO THE DISCOVER VER VER VER VERY OF Y OF Y OF Y OF Y OF THE FOOD THE FOOD THE FOOD THE FOOD THE FOOD I I I I I IN THE MIDDLE YEARS of t... ... Great Public and its Press know better, and “Scientists” they are, 4 The Food of the Gods and when they emerge to any sort of publicity, “distinguis... ...wood was entirely ordinary in his appearance. Until they happened upon the Food of the Gods (as I must insist upon calling it) they led lives of such ... ... and a mystery to the gen- eral public, and what is not is evident. 6 The Food of the Gods There is no doubt about what is not great, no race of men ... ...s some- thing of the vision still lingered in his eyes. II II II II II The Food of the Gods I call it, this substance that Mr. Bensington and Professo...

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...cessful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravi... ...e streets, has coiled up his chilly limbs in some paved comer, to dream of food and warmth. 50 Sketches by Boz The drunken, the dissipated, and the w... ...d drop the curtain. CHAPTER III—SHOPS AND THEIR TENANTS WHAT INEXHAUSTIBLE food for speculation, do the streets of London afford! We never were able t... ...the Strand, a Sunday or two ago, behind a little group; and they furnished food for our amusement the whole way. They had come out of some part of the... ...men of fifty—a houseless vagrant, going joy- fully to prison as a place of food and shelter, hand- cuffed to a man whose prospects were ruined, charac...

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...cessful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravi... ...e streets, has coiled up his chilly limbs in some paved comer, to dream of food and warmth. 50 Sketches by Boz The drunken, the dissipated, and the w... ...d drop the curtain. CHAPTER III—SHOPS AND THEIR TENANTS WHAT INEXHAUSTIBLE food for speculation, do the streets of London afford! We never were able t... ...the Strand, a Sunday or two ago, behind a little group; and they furnished food for our amusement the whole way. They had come out of some part of the... ...men of fifty—a houseless vagrant, going joy- fully to prison as a place of food and shelter, hand- cuffed to a man whose prospects were ruined, charac... ...wafted through life by the grateful prayers of all the purveyors of animal food within three miles round. We would willingly stop here, but we have a ... ...ded boy, who, in consideration of the sum of one shilling per week and his food, was let out by the parish to carry medicine and messages. As there wa... ...kets when he hasn’t a bed, or giving him soup when he requires substantial food?—”like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.” Why not give ‘em a ... ..., however, the girl was worse than she had been yet, and the few scraps of food they had were gone. It was indispensably necessary that somebody shoul...

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...xcerpt: Twelfe Night, Or what you will; Actus Primus -- Scaena Prima -- Enter Orsino Duke of Illyria, Curio, and other Lords. Duke. If Musicke be the food of Love, play on, Give me excesse of it: that surfetting, The appetite may sicken, and so dye. That straine agen, it had a dying fall: O, it came ore my eare, like the sweet sound That breathes upon a banke of Violets; S...

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...o, and other 3 Lords. 4 Duke. 5 If Musicke be the food of Loue, play on, 6 Giue me excesse of it: that surfetting, 7 ...

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...a marriage procession, or yelling at a Hindu festival. Sometimes there was food in the house, more often there was not, and then Kim went out again to... ...er, a writ ten paper of the hours of the trains that go south.’ ‘ And for food?’ Lamas, as a rule, have good store of money somewhere about them, but... ...nd thus have saved some money.’ ‘Yes–and spent twice over what we saved on food by the way. That was talked out ten thousand times.’ ‘Ay, by ten thous... ...d the banker. ‘Not only was it sufficient for the ticket, but for a little food also, ‘ said Kim, leaping to his place. ‘Now eat, Holy One. Look. Day ... ...his daughter’s marriage feast,’ said the woman crisply. ‘Let him put their food to that account. The yogi will beg, I doubt not.’ ‘Ay, I beg for him,’... ...he house, where, going on his Lahore experiences, he judged there would be food–and information. The kitchen 37 Rudyard Kipling was crowded with exci... ...stay, the lama insisted on departure. They gave Kim a large bundle of good food and nearly three annas in copper money for the needs of the road, and ... ... strangers. He dragged out a string bedstead for the lama, set warm cooked food before him, prepared him a pipe, and, the evening ceremonies being fin... ...ng haired, strong scented Sansis with baskets of lizards and other unclean food on their backs, their lean dogs sniffing at their heels. These people ...

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...hick glass; it will contain a proper store of solidified air, concentrated food, water distilling apparatus, and so forth. And enamelled, as it were, ... ...n we had to discuss and decide what provisions we were to take -compressed foods, concentrated essences, steel cylinders containing reserve oxygen, an... ... smooth glass to the bottom of the sphere, then turned to take the cans of food and other impedimenta from Cavor. The interior was warm, the thermomet... ...k my fall. I did as he di- rected, and thrust my feet against the bales of food cases and air cylinders to prevent their falling upon me. Then with a ... ...ing, that while we were in the sphere we felt not the slightest desire for food, nor did we feel the want of it when we abstained. At first we forced ... ...d looking round for a second glimpse of a Selenite. They lay against their food like stupendous slugs, huge, greasy hulls, eating greedily and noisily... ...we saw nothing. I tried to whisper to Cavor that I could hardly go without food much longer, but my mouth had become too dry for whispering. “Cavor,” ... ... my mouth had become too dry for whispering. “Cavor,” I said, “I must have food.” He turned a face full of dismay towards me. “It’s a case for holding... ...illed me with a curiously benevolent satisfaction that there was such good food in the moon. The depression of my hunger gave way to an irratio- nal e...

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...rments; and so aided, the creature spread into colder climates, carry- ing food with him, storing food—until sometimes the ne- glected grass-seed spro... ...s but a moment in a man’s life, whose proper business it seemed was to get food and kill his fellows and beget after the manner of all that belongs to... ...ly unknowing. At last, in the generous levels of warm river valleys, where food is abundant and life very easy, the emerging human overcoming his earl... ...d concentrating in hitherto unthought- of masses about a few city centres, food was coming to them over enormous distances upon a scale that made the ... ...eved that he would, as a matter of course, be able to procure a ticket for food and a night’s lodg- ings and some indication of possible employment. B... ...s, and thanked her as well as he was able, and went off very gladly to get food. S S S S Section 8 ection 8 ection 8 ection 8 ection 8 A DAY OR SO LAT... ...water, and all day long the line of pits suffered greatly from thirst. For food they had chocolate and bread. ‘ At first,’ he says, ‘I was extraordina... ...e on account of the furniture, and I left a note of in- debtedness for the food we had taken. We were particularly glad of our tobacco and fires, beca... ...nes working, he cast loose from his moorings. Then he bethought himself of food, and contrived to land five men, get in a few dozen cheeses, and ship ...

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...it; I was round in that very place to see the weeding was done thoroughly, and already the reptile springs be- hind our heels. Tuitui is a truly stran... ... up, as a decep- tion of the devil’s, the High Woods. I have been once down to Apia, to a huge native feast at Seumanutafa’s, the chief of Apia. There... ...k-house. She is a wild pig; far handsomer than any tame; and when she found the cook-house was too much for her methods of evasion, she lay down on th... ...ne of them of some size, and a considerable stable, made two miles of road some three times, cleared many acres of bush, made some miles of path, plan... ...rd. Both these are excellent servants; we gave a lun- cheon party when we buried the Samoan bones, and I as- sure you all was in good style, yet we ne... ... from the German firm; not so ugly as most, but not pretty neither; not so dull as his sort are, but not quite a Crichton. When he came first, he ate ... ...ten us by about five minutes, so we made fair time over our bog-holes. But the war dances were over, and we came in time to see only the tail end (som... ...h their heads gilded with pow- dered sandal-wood, others with heads all purple, stuck full of the petals of a flower. In the midst there was a growing... ...im, and given him the due cry as Tuiatua—one of the eight royal names of the is- lands, as I hope you will know before this reaches you. Not long afte...

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...ormality. When he took me back into favour, he adroitly and pointedly explained the nature of my offence: I had asked him to sell cocoa-nuts; and in H... ...he peeled wand before a Highland inn. Or take another case. Anaho is known as ‘the country without popoi.’ The word popoi serves in different islands ... ...ty! The youth, from six to fifteen, are taken from their 43 Robert Louis Stevenson homes by Government, centralised at Hatiheu, where they are suppor... ...e in Tai-o-hae, it remains to be added that these criminals draw a salary as regularly as the President of the Republic. Ten sous a day is their hire.... ...nations to eat the dog, an animal with whom we live on terms of the next intimacy, shows how precariously the distinction is grounded. The pig is the ... ...t from the Catholics of the village, and who early displayed the marks of courage and friendliness; no other animal, whether dog or pig, was suffered ... ...n, and, with whatever intermixture, of such different blood? What circumstance is common to them all, but that they lived on islands destitute, or ver... ...ion almost European; the chiefs crowned with silver plumes of old men’s beards and girt with kirtles of the hair of dead women. All manner of is- 74 ... ...e baskets of long- pig. It is told that the feasts were long kept up; the people came from them brutishly exhausted with debauchery, and the chiefs he...

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...ing about at home like a cat at a mouse- hole, that became, as people say, food for thought. Mrs. Larkins was from the first flushed, garrulous, and w... ... there was nubbicks 103 H G Wells or strings or such in ‘am. It’s a plain food. “That’s better,” he said at last. “You got to get married,” said Uncl... ...frightfully disarranged for cleaning or tidying up, and she cooked because food had to be cooked and with a sound moralist’s entire disregard of the q... ... sound moralist’s entire disregard of the quality of the consequences. The food came from her hands done rather than improved, and looking as uncomfor... ...vages clothed under duress by a missionary with a stock of out-sizes. Such food is too apt to behave resentfully, rebel and work Obi. She ceased to li... ... affairs. With a careless generosity she affords her children a variety of foods unparalleled in the world’s history, and including many condiments an... ...upon Mr. Polly and he be- came more and more a battle-ground of fermenting foods and warring juices, he came to hate the very sight, as people say, of... ...rtion in the open air, of congenial experiences, of interest and wholesome food and successful digestion, months that browned Mr. Polly and hardened h...

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...sed “odd,” to behave “oddly,” to eat in a different manner or of different food, to commit, indeed, any breach of the established convention is to giv... ...o meet a different complexion of humanity and a different type of home and food and apparatus, to mark unfamiliar trees and plants and flowers and bea... ...lously easy. You see us the shyest and most watchful of guests; but of the food they put before us and the furnishings of the house, and all our enter... ...ndition of the Utopian problem profoundly; we have to provide not only for food and clothing, for order and health, but for initiative. The factor tha... ... the energy available for the work of life. It or its tenants will produce food, and so human energy, and the exploitation of coal and electric power,... ... the measure of his freedom. Without any property, without even shelter or food, a man has no choice but to set about getting these things; he is in s... ...coupled with its politico- social instability, had been borne in mind. The food of the Greek imagination was the very antithesis of our own nour- ishm... ...in the earth lecturing on “The Need of a Return to Nature,” and on “Simple Foods and Simple Ways.” He did it for the love of it. It was very clear to ... ...olves itself into a struggle, and often a very foul and ugly struggle, for food, shelter, and clothing. Deaths outright from exposure and star- vation...

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...recognized among them. Where else in Paris would they have found wholesome food in suf- ficient quantity at the prices she charged them, and rooms whi... ...t on clean gloves. I can manage to exist on bread and water, or go without food, if need be, but I cannot do without the tools with which they cultiva... ... while other per- sons went to the grocers’ shops and bought Italian paste foods without brawling over it. It was during this year that Goriot made th... ...o and lodge with the Buneaud; the wine would give a cat the colic, and the food is cheap and nasty.” The boarders stood aside in two rows to let her p... ...o made the law forgot to prohibit the introduc- tion of wheat products and food stuffs made from corn. Hey! hey! … That struck me this morning. There ... ...to them! On my word of honor, yes. I am going to manufacture Italian paste foods at Odessa. I understand the trade. There are millions to be made in i... ...d seemed to wish to sit by her father, Eu- gene went down to take a little food. The boarders were al- ready assembled. “Well,” remarked the painter, ...

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...ularly with subtly sustaining and nutritive fluids, and light and pleasant foods, quite strange to Graham. He always closed the door carefully as he e... ... are. I do not know where I am. I cannot count. I do not know where to get food, nor drink, nor shelter.” “Come, come,” said the old man, “if you had ... ...nd underneath these wandered the countless flocks and herds of the British Food Trust with their lonely guards and keepers. Not a familiar outline any... ...eases of all sorts had practically vanished, everyone had a sufficiency of food and clothing, was warmed in the city ways and sheltered from the weath... ...l. Amongst others there were several of the more prominent officers of the Food Trust; the controller of the European 121 H G Wells Piggeries had a p... ...se ladies?” The daughter of the Manager of the Piggeries of the Euro- pean Food Trust was a particularly charming little person with red hair and anim... ...wind. And here and there were patches dotted with the sheep of the British Food T rust, and here and there a mounted shep- herd made a spot of black. ... ... poor there is no easy death. And at any hour in the day or night there is food, shelter and a blue uniform for all comers—that is the first condition... ...ny has powers. There are stages of unpleasantness in the work— stoppage of food—and a man or woman who has refused to work once is known by a thumb-ma...

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...ys, and which rendered our vast tree-pulp newspapers possible, referred to foods, drinks, to- bacco, and the drugs that promised a restoration of the ... ...e most part a drifting crowd of landless men; landlords and railway lords, food lords (for the land is food) and mineral lords ruled its life, gave it... ...clasped my hand. “What are people doing here?” said I. “They’re sending us food from outside,” he said, “and we’re going to level all these slums—and ... ...h century, though no doubt due in part to the miscellaneous badness of the food they ate, was in the main attributable to the vileness of the common f... ...n had thrust into the face of their sweated God, even as they thrust cheap food into the mouths of their sweated workers; all these we also swept away... ...ong as my mother had lived, she had in a measure held my heart, given me a food these emotions could live upon, and mitigated that emptiness of spirit...

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... not does not matter. Supper time is come; let us sup.” Hans prepared some food. I scarcely ate, and I swallowed down the few drops of water rationed ... .... Sublimed into impon- derable vapour, I mingle and am lost in the endless foods of those vast globular volumes of vaporous mists, which roll upon the... ...rhanging rocks afforded us some shelter from the storm. Hans prepared some food, which I could not touch; and each of us, exhausted with three sleeple... ...e Stromboliotes received us kindly as shipwrecked mari- ners. They gave us food and clothing. After waiting forty- eight hours, on the 31 st of August...

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... society 31 Joseph Conrad had made a point of stuffing him with fattening foods in a damp and lightless cellar. And ever since he had never managed t... ...times. My experiments cost money now and again, and then I must do without food for a day or two. Y ou’re looking at my beer. Y es. I have had two gla... ...igation in Greenwich was concluded at last he had lost his inclination for food. Not accustomed, as the doctors are, to examine closely the mangled re... ...ssible suggestion. But once enticed into the parlour he did not reject the food set before him. He ate as if in a public place, his hat pushed off his... ... effect of a feverish cold. He drank three cups of tea, but abstained from food entirely. He recoiled from it with sombre aversion when urged by Mrs V...

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...t so much wheat. There was something vaguely in- decent in the sight, this food of the people, this elemen- tal force, this basic energy, weltering he... ... without moving, inert and stupefied with fatigue, till the morning. Work, food, and sleep, all life reduced to its bare essentials, uncomplex, honest... ...g, haunted with his sor- row, thinking, thinking, often hard put to it for food. The body was ill-nourished, and the mind, concentrated for- ever upon... ...k womb of the Earth the germ of life, the sustenance of a whole world, the food of an entire People. When the drills had passed, Annixter turned and r... .... The musicians played a quick step. The company threw themselves upon the food with a great scraping of chairs and a vast rustle of muslins, tarletan... ...tuous neglect of opportunity to continue to deluge Europe with our surplus food when the East trembles upon the verge of starvation!” The two men, Ced... ...r oc- cupation gone. He saw the farmer suddenly emanci- pated, the world’s food no longer at the mercy of the specu- lator, thousands upon thousands o... ...for lack of bread—a hundred thousand acres of wheat—millions of bushels of food—grabbed and gobbled by the Railroad Trust, and then talk of moderation... ...torted so as to read as an advertisement for patented cereals and infants’ foods. Finally, the editor of an enterprising monthly magazine reprinted th...

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...rm to such extent that I could by dint of much exertion supply myself with food from an earthen dish which lay by my side on the floor. I saw to my ho... ...hirst it appeared to be the design of my persecutors to stimulate, for the food in the dish was meat pungently seasoned. Looking upward, I surveyed th... ...ng inanition. Even amid the agonies of that period the human nature craved food. With painful effort I outstretched my left arm as far as my bonds per... ...which a moiety only floated indeterminately through my brain when I raised food to my burning lips. The whole thought was now present — feeble, scarce... ...y waited but for motionlessness on my part to make me their prey. “To what food,” I thought, “have they been accustomed in the well?” They had devoure...

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...imed the Lamb, “I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother’s milk is both food and drink to me.” Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, sa... ...d; and, desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful voices. They replied, “The... ...nd all your locusts too!” THE C OCK AND THE J EWEL A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If ... ...sshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him, “Why did you not treasure up food during ... ...s often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished. Change of habit cannot alter Nature. THE G OAT AND TH... ... L ION A LION, unable from old age and infirmities to provide him self with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and... ...r resolved to kill the Snake. The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head an... ... UPON A TIME a Wolf resolved to disguise his appear ance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the fl... ...s to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sic...

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...o my reasoning was dead against the chances of the invaders. With wine and food, the confidence of my own table, and the necessity of reassuring my wi... ...iscussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. “We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear.” I did not know it, bu... ...lling me and trying to make me see the things he had seen. He had eaten no food since midday, he told me early in his narrative, and I found some mutt... ...? Did they dream they might exterminate us? (At that time no one knew what food they needed.) A hundred such questions struggled together in my mind a... ...y procession of fugitives that was beginning. He succeeded in getting some food at an inn. For a time he remained in Edgware not knowing what next to ... ... and there were some desperate souls even going back towards London to get food. These were chiefly people from the northern suburbs, whose knowledge ... ... chanced, pre- ferred to push on at once to the coast rather than wait for food, although all three of them were very hungry. By midday they passed th... ...e quite silent and deserted, save for a few furtive plunderers hunting for food. Near Tillingham they suddenly came in sight of the sea, and the most ... ...way, found himself safely aboard the steamboat with his charges. There was food aboard, albeit at exorbitant prices, and the three of them contrived t...