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-<meta charset="utf-8"><title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells</title>
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+<title>The Time Machine | Project Gutenberg</title>
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The Time Machine
</h1>
-<h3>
+<div class="h3">
An Invention
-</h3>
+</div>
-<h2>
+<div class="h2">
by H. G. Wells
-</h2>
+</div>
<hr >
@@ -183,7 +206,7 @@ Introduction</h2>
<p>
The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was
-expounding a recondite matter to us. His pale grey eyes shone and twinkled, and
+expounding a recondite matter to us. His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and
his usually pale face was flushed and animated. The fire burnt brightly,
and the soft radiance of the incandescent lights in the lilies of silver
caught the bubbles that flashed and passed in our glasses. Our chairs,
@@ -305,7 +328,7 @@ geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious.
For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another at
fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All
these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations
-of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.
+of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.&rdquo;
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@@ -324,7 +347,7 @@ conclude, was along the Time-Dimension.&rdquo;
&ldquo;But,&rdquo; said the Medical Man, staring hard at a coal in the
fire, &ldquo;if Time is really only a fourth dimension of Space, why is it,
and why has it always been, regarded as something different? And why cannot
-we move in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of
+we move about in Time as we move about in the other dimensions of
Space?&rdquo;
</p>
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<p>
&ldquo;Of course,&rdquo; said the Psychologist, and reassured us.
-&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a simple point of psychology. I should have thought of
+&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a simple point in psychology. I should have thought of
it. It&rsquo;s plain enough, and helps the paradox delightfully. We cannot
see it, nor can we appreciate this machine, any more than we can the spoke
of a wheel spinning, or a bullet flying through the air. If it is
@@ -2493,7 +2516,7 @@ thirty feet of it a deadly nausea came upon me. I had the greatest
difficulty in keeping my hold. The last few yards was a frightful struggle
against this faintness. Several times my head swam, and I felt all the
sensations of falling. At last, however, I got over the well-mouth somehow,
-and staggered out of the ruin into the blinding sunlight. I fell upon my
+and staggered out of the ruin into the blinding sunlight. I fell full upon my
face. Even the soil smelt sweet and clean. Then I remember Weena kissing my
hands and ears, and the voices of others among the Eloi. Then, for a time,
I was insensible.
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<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 35 ***</div>
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