ere on his feet; his legs were bare to the knees, and his head was bare." He was under the impression that there will frail creature and not very intelligent and he was correct. His assumption of intelligence was proven when one of the human looking creatures asked him is he had come from the sun riding on a thunderstorm. Also when he gave them a threatening motion towards them when they got around the machine they retreated immediately. His assumption of frailty was proven after this fact. He noticed that a lot of them looked a like which he thought was odd. They probably looked like this because they have been bred and raised like cattle for many years so they are all probably sharing a lot of the same genes. The thing Wells did not know is that you can not do that to mammals especially humans; breeding so closely using the same genes it causes mammals to become sterile and extinct. He only had 19th century knowledge so he was probably not aware of this or he didn't care because most people were probably not aware of the study of genetics. They didn't show much interest in learning they would run around and play with toys and lose interest in a never ending cycle like a child. He didn't know there language but it was obviously derived from the English because one of the Eli's asked him if he had come from the sun and he understood but some of the other things that the Eli were saying didn't make sense to the time traveler. He saw the white sphinx and describe it as having a silver tree at its shoulder and the sphinx was made of marble and the wings of it were spread out. A pedestal that the time traveler described was mad of bronze and "was thick with verdigris." The building that the Eloi resided at had according to the time traveler had huge doors "and was all together colossal dimensions". The entrance had carvings of Phoenicians. After seeing a sphinx and Phoenician carvings and how primitive the people were he had doubts that he ...
