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The World Set Free-Part14_H. G. WELLS (1866-1946)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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Jahre. Very characteristic, too, it is of the change in men's

hearts that was even then preparing a new phase of human history.



He goes on to write of the escape from individuality in science

and service, and of his discovery of this 'salvation.' All that



was then, no doubt, very moving and original; now it seems only

the most obviouscommonplace of human life.



The glow of the sunset faded, the twilight deepened into night.

The fires burnt the brighter, and some Irishmen away across the



meer started singing. But Barnet's men were too weary for that

sort of thing, and soon the bank and the barge were heaped with



sleeping forms.

'I alone seemed unable to sleep. I suppose I was over-weary, and



after a little feverishslumber by the tiller of the barge I sat

up, awake and uneasy....



'That night Holland seemed all sky. There was just a little

black lower rim to things, a steeple, perhaps, or a line of



poplars, and then the great hemisphere swept over us. As at

first the sky was empty. Yet my uneasiness referred itself in



some vague way to the sky.

'And now I was melancholy. I found something strangely sorrowful



and submissive in the sleepers all about me, those men who had

marched so far, who had left all the established texture of their



lives behind them to come upon this mad campaign, this campaign

that signified nothing and consumed everything, this mere fever



of fighting. I saw how little and feeble is the life of man, a

thing of chances, preposterously unable to find the will to



realise even the most timid of its dreams. And I wondered if

always it would be so, if man was a doomed animal who would never



to the last days of his time take hold of fate and change it to

his will. Always, it may be, he will remain kindly but jealous,



desirous but discursive, able and unwisely impulsive, until

Saturn who begot him shall devour him in his turn....



'I was roused from these thoughts by the sudden realisation of

the presence of a squadron of aeroplanes far away to the



north-east and very high. They looked like little black dashes

against the midnight blue. I remember that I looked up at them at



first rather idly--as one might notice a flight of birds. Then I

perceived that they were only the extreme wing of a great fleet



that was advancing in a long line very swiftly from the direction

of the frontier and my attention tightened.



'Directly I saw that fleet I was astonished not to have seen it

before.



'I stood up softly, undesirous of disturbing my companions, but

with my heart beating now rather more rapidly with surprise and



excitement. I strained my ears for any sound of guns along our

front. Almost instinctively I turned about for protection to the



south and west, and peered; and then I saw coming as fast and

much nearer to me, as if they had sprung out of the darkness,



three banks of aeroplanes; a group of squadrons very high, a main

body at a height perhaps of one or two thousand feet, and a



doubtful number flying low and very indistinct. The middle ones

were so thick they kept putting out groups of stars. And I



realised that after all there was to be fighting in the air.

'There was something extraordinarily strange in this swift,



noiseless convergence of nearly invisible combatants above the

sleeping hosts. Every one about me was still unconscious; there



was no sign as yet of any agitation among the shipping on the

main canal, whose whole course, dotted with unsuspicious lights



and fringed with fires, must have been clearly perceptible from

above. Then a long way off towards Alkmaar I heard bugles, and



after that shots, and then a wild clamour of bells. I determined




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