The Mystery of the Missing Books
DR. Philip Hillyer:
I'll be damned! But where did it go?George: Nowhere in the usual sense - it's still here!
David Filby:
He must have taken something with him...Mrs. Watchett (George's housekeeper): Nothing... except three books.David Filby: Which three books?Mrs. Watchett: I don't know... is it important?David Filby: Oh, I suppose not. Only, which three books would you have taken?
Mrs. Watchett:
Mister Filby, do you suppose he'll ever return?David Filby: One cannot choose, but wonder. You see, he's all the time in the world.
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A Brotherly Warning Against the Time Machine
David Filby:
George... I speak to you as a friend – more as a brother... if that machine can do what you say it can, destroy it. Destroy it, George, before it destroys you!
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Reflections on Time and Human Struggle
George: [George becomes furious when he discovers the Elois' passive nature]
What have you done? Thousands of years of building and rebuilding, creating and recreating so you could let it crumble to dust. A million years of sensitive men dying for their dreams, for what? So you can swim, and dance, and play... You, all of you, I'm going back to my own time; I won't even bother to tell of the useless struggle and their hopeless future, but at least I can die among men!
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Reflections on Humanity's Struggle and Hope
George: [In the year 802,701, George speaks to Weena about the past]
Man's past – is mainly a grim struggle for survival. But there have been moments, when a few voices have spoken up...
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A New Understanding of Conflict
George: [The time machine takes George first to 1917 (during the First World War), then to 1940 (the Second)]
Then I realized the truth of the matter – this was a new war...
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