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Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to __onquer_ Earth, to steal their __recious_ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of __ompetition__as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn__ have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do _ knowing no better, having no choice.
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Fleshers used to spin fantasies about aliens arriving to __onquer_ Earth, to steal their __recious_ physical resources, to wipe them out for fear of __ompetition__as if a species capable of making the journey wouldn__ have had the power, or the wit, or the imagination, to rid itself of obsolete biological imperatives. Conquering the Galaxy is what bacteria with spaceships would do _ knowing no better, having no choice.

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Had Moreau had any intelligible object, I could have sympathized at least a little with him. I am not so squeamish about pain as that. I could have forgiven him a little even, had his motive been only hate. But he was so irresponsible, so utterly careless! His curiosity, his mad, aimless investigations, drove him on; and the Things were thrown out to live a year or so, to struggle and blunder and suffer, and at last to die painfully.