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Match each excerpt from h. g. wells's the time machine with the theme it expresses.
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humankind and nature
good versus evil
horrors of science
evolution
society and class
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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.
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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.
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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.
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