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Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his
vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the
nineteenth century, expressed any idea that
intelligent life might have developed there far,
or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level....
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Its physical condition is still largely a mystery,
but we know now that even in its equatorial
region the midday temperature barely
approaches that of our coldest winter....
The immediate pressure of necessity has
brightened [the Martians'] intellects, enlarged
their powers, and hardened their hearts. And,
looking across space with instruments, and
intelligences such as we have scarcely
dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance
only 35,000,000 of miles sunward of them, a
morning star of hope, our own warmer planet,
My Progress
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Reread the underlined sentence on page 4.
What does the figurative language in this
sentence suggest about the narrator?
He blames people's exaggerated idea of their
superiority for their failure to imagine life more
advanced than themselves.
He feels that people should have used better tools
to help them detect advanced life forms on other
planets.
He sympathizes with people for not apprehending
that there was advanced life on other planets.
He is unable to believe that there could be any
form of life more advanced than humans.
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