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| | The Sci-fi novels of H.G.Wells : Arthur's Classic Novels |
 | | Until the extraordinary affair at Sidmouth, the peculiar species Haploteuthis ferox was known to science only generically, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and nibbled by fish, found early in 1896 by Mr Jennings, near Land's End. |
 | | It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. |
 | | The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. |
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