"Now I want you clearly to understand that this lever, being pressed press
over, sends the machineg gliding into the future, and this other reverses the motion. I am going to
the lever, and off the machine will go. It will vanish, pass into future Time,
yourselves
and disappear. Have a good
there is no trickery. I don't want to waste this model, and then be told I'm a quack."
look at the thing. Look at the table too,
and satisty
There was a minute's pause perhaps
lever.
The Psychologist seemed about to speak to me, but changed his mind.
He sent forth the model Time Machine on its interminable voyage. We all saw the lever turn.
Then the Time Traveller put forth his finger towards the
wind, and the lamp flame jumped. One of the candles on the mantel was
am absolutely certain there was no trickery. There was a breath of
ghost; and t was gone-vanishedl
blown out, and the
little machine suddenly swung round, became indistinct, was seen as a
Which of the following is an example
of theme in this excerpt?
© Time travel
Friends are enemies.
Seeing is believing.
Machinery