At the beginning of the story the Time Traveller, a very ambitious English scientist and physicist, invites his friends to explain his new theory to them: he tells them that there have to be four dimensions in physics, not only length, breadth and thickness, but also duration or simply time. Therefore one must be able to move in time, just as one can move in space. He wants to prove his theory by experimental verification and so he has built a model of a Time Machine, which he starts now. The model disappears immediately, but the others believe in a trick. The Time Traveller tells them to come back on the next Thursday. One week later, the circle meets again, but the Time Traveller himself is too late. The men discuss the happenings the week before and time-travelling itself when he suddenly enters the dining room. His clothes are dirty and he limps and at first he does not speak. He wants something to eat before he would tell what has happened to him. After dinner they go to the smoking room, were he tells his story. At the morning of the same day his Time Machine was completed and he tried it for the first time. At first he just tried it out, he pressed the starting lever and almost immediately the stopping one. No changes were visible, but almost five hours had passed away. So he knew that his invention worked and he wanted to continue his journey into the future. The trip was not very comfortable and he had a bad feeling. During the time-travel he saw how the things around him were changing and the sun hopping swiftly across the sky. The speed increased and while at first a day appeared to pass in a second, soon a whole year passed by in one second and he was still gaining velocity. After a while the Time Traveller lugged over the lever and stopped – in the year 802,701. He found himself in on a green hillside and recognized some persons approaching him. They were very curious and soon he notices that they have the intellect of a five-year-old child. These people called Eloi seemed very nice and beautiful to him, although he was unable to understand their simple and primitive language. He stayed with the Eloi and recognized that women and men looked alike. He tried to explain their behaviour and figure with evolution. Since there was no visible danger for the people and the institution of a family was no longer needed, they did not need to have a strong figure to defend themselves and the sexes had no different tasks anymore and their differences vanished. Furthermore the Eloi were vegetarians and had always enough to eat and warm clothes, although they never had to work. The Time Traveller concluded from that, that they were living in some kind of a communistic system. During the following days he explored the new strange world and for instance he discovered new species of flowers and fruit. One day he returned from a trip and did not find the Time Machine at its place anymore and so he was very confused and desperate, because he was afraid of being caught at this place and time. He supposed, that the machine was hidden in a huge sphinx standing next to the place, at which the Time machine had stood before. Two days later he saved an Eloi girl called Weena from drowning and they become friends. Although the Time Traveller would have never expected her to be thankful, she was and did not leave his side anymore. Soon he found out that the Eloi were scared to death at night, while they were happy and carefree by daylight, but he had no idea why. Later he found out, that there was a subterranean population existing - the Morlocks. Those were perfectly adjusted to the life in the underground for instance by having extremely sensitive eyes. He concluded, that the human race of his time had developed into those two species. His new theory was, that the Eloi had developed from the Capitalists and the Morlocks from the Labourers, who worked for the “Upper-worlders” to guarantee their comfort. While the labourer had never seen the sunlight and worked subterranean getting adjusted to those conditions, the too-perfect security of the capitalist had led them to a slow movement of degeneration in size, strength and intelligence. The Time Traveller found out, that wells led into the underworld and knowing that the Morlocks had taken his Time Machine he dared to go down there just being armed with a box of matches. When he arrived at the bottom of the well he was surrounded by darkness and a bunch of Morlocks tried to examine him. He stroke one match after the other and the Morlocks were always immediately driven away. When his last match burned down, he panicked and fled being followed by the ape-like creatures. He escaped, but during his stay in the underworld he saw a pile of meat, which made him clear, that the Morlocks were cannibals and ate the Eloi. Back in the upper world, he went with Weena to the Palace of Green Porcelain he had seen on one of his trips. The Time Traveller was pretty surprised, when he noticed that this palace had once been a museum. Unfortunately they had not much time, because the night drew near. So he just took a box of matches, camphor and a lever he had found to defend Weena and him at night. They were really late and so they had to spend the night in a forest knowing that the Morlocks were following them. The Time Traveller stroke many matches to keep them away and lit a fire. Unfortunately he fell asleep and when he woke up, he had to realize that the fire had burned down. So he was again touched and examined by the some Morlocks, but this time he flipped out and killed some of them with his lever. Suddenly he saw a red light in the forest. The forest was burning and the Morlocks fled being blinded by the light. The fire had saved him, but when he looked for Weena, she was gone. The next morning he came back to the place where he arrived and found the door of the sphinx unlocked. Although he knew that this was a trap, he entered the sphinx. He saw the Time Machine in a corner and heading towards it, the door was closed behind him.
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