Match each excerpt from H. G. Wells's The Time Machine with the theme it expresses.


humankind and nature

good versus evil

horrors of science

evolution

society and class

Pairs



So, in the end, above ground you must have

the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty,

and below ground the Have-nots,

the Workers getting continually adapted

to the conditions of their labour.





We improve our favourite plants and

animals—and how few they are—gradually

by selective breeding; now a new and better peach,

now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower,

now a more convenient breed of cattle.



Plainly, this second species of Man was subterranean.

There were three circumstances in particular

which made me think that its rare emergence

above ground was the outcome of a long-continued

underground habit. In the first place,

there was the bleached look common

in most animals that live largely

in the dark—the white fish of the Kentucky caves, for instance