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THE TIME MACHINE Part VI
It became clearer and clearer to me that the figure I had seen was a human being. Gradually, I began to see the truth: as hundreds of centuries passed, Man had developed along, two lines. Now there were two different kinds of human beings: the beautiful frail little people of the Upper World, and these white people of the night, that lived in the Underground World.
I was thinking hard, trying to understand the social system of this world.
Maybe these underground people did the work there that was necessary for the comfort of the Upperworld people? Already in our time there is a tendency to use more and more underground space for industry and our workers spend more and more time under the ground. Again in our time the growing tendency of rich people is to make more and more of the land their private property. So, above the ground you must have rich people who enjoy pleasure, comfort and beauty; and under the ground live the workers.
However, this future world was not so beautiful, this civilization was dying. The Upperworlders which were called Eloi had degraded in size, strengh and intelligence. That I could see clearly enough. What had happened to the Undergrounders which were called Morlocks — I did not know yet.
I decided to go down into one of the wells and see with my own eyes what was there.
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