The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000 miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life could begin. It has air and water and all that is necessary for the support of animated existence. H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898 What does this passage from The War of the Worlds lead you to infer about the narrator? A. He is interested in the Martians. B. He doesn't know what is happening. C. He is well educated and smart. D. He is scared.
