"There is no doubt about what is not great, no race of men have such obvious littlenesses. They live so far as their h…"

"The Food of the Gods I call it, this substance that Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood made between them; and havin…"

"How many big wasps came out that day it is impossible to guess. There are at least fifty accounts of their apparition…"

"The sort of thing that pleased the public mind was caricatures of eminent politicians after a course of Boom-feeding,…"

"And presently little Redwood, pioneer of the new race, first child of all who ate the food, was crawling about his nu…"

"I shall have to look out a lot of books to put in his way, and they'll have to be big type. Now what sort of books wi…"

"Henceforth our whole story is one of dissemination. To follow the Food of the Gods further is to trace the ramificati…"

"The Children of the Food grew steadily through all these years; that was the cardinal fact of the time. But it is the…"

"Meanwhile, quietly, taking their time as children must, the Children of the Food, growing into a world that changed t…"

"In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of me…"