No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet, could have guessed that this bland orb [Earth] teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.
"Star Maker" by Olaf Stapledon, Dover Books, (p. 15), 1930.
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