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Title: The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth

Author: H.G. Wells

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[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