Size! Mere Size!

Tremendous growths will obscure and hide our houses, smother our churches, smash and destroy all the order of our cities, and we shall become no more than a feeble vermin under the heels of the new race. Mankind will be swamped and drowned in things of its own begetting! And all for nothing! Size! Mere size!

The young man from Oxford The Food of the Gods (1904) by H. G. Wells

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Context: A young follower of the politician Caterham rails against the Food.

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Source: Book III, Chapter 1

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