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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth, by H.G. Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth Author: H.G. Wells Release Date: March 24, 2004 [EBook #11696] [This file last updated on August 14, 2010] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE FOOD OF THE GODS *** Produced by Paul Murray, Chris Hogg and PG Distributed Proofreaders [Illustration: He sat down in a garden, with his back to a house that overlooked all London.] THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH H.G. WELLS [Illustration] CONTENTS. BOOK I. THE DAWN OF THE FOOD. I. THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOOD II. THE EXPERIMENTAL FARM III. THE GIANT RATS IV. THE GIANT CHILDREN V. THE MINIMIFICENCE OF MR. BENSINGTON BOOK II. THE FOOD IN THE VILLAGE. I. THE COMING OF THE FOOD II. THE BRAT GIGANTIC BOOK III. THE HARVEST OF THE FOOD. I. THE ALTERED WORLD II. THE GIANT LOVERS III. YOUNG CADDLES IN LONDON IV. REDWOOD'S TWO DAYS V. THE GIANT LEAGUER BOOK I. THE DAWN OF THE FOOD. THE FOOD OF THE GODS. CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE DISCOVERY OF THE FOOD. I. In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists." They dislike that word so much that from the columns of _Nature_, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But the Great Public and its Press know better, and "Scientists" they are, and when they emerge to any sort of publicity, "distinguished scientists" and "eminent scientists" and "well-known scientists" is the very least we call them. Certainly both Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood quite merited any of these terms long before they came upon the marvellous discovery of which this story tells. Mr. Bensington was a Fellow of the Ro
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