The planet Mars, I scarcely need remind the reader, revolves about the sun at a mean distance of 140,000,000
miles, and the light and heat it receives from the sun is
barely half of that received by this world. It must be, if the
nebular hypothesis has any truth, older than our world; and
long before this earth ceased to be molten, life upon its
surface must have begun its course. The fact that it is
scarcely one seventh of the volume of the earth must have
accelerated its cooling to the temperature at which life
could begin. It has air and water and all that is necessary
for the support of animated existence.
-H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, 1898
What does this passage from The War of the Worlds lead you to infer about
the narrator?
A. He doesn't know what is happening.
B. He is interested in the Martians.
C. He is well educated and smart.
D. He is scared