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"At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment."

It is basically saying the animals are stupid to us and we are stupid to the "aliens". Everyone realized that instead of the "aliens" being inferior to us and needing to be saved by us, we were inferior to the aliens and in analogy form:

Animals:Humans Humans:Aliens

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