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'You will get pregnant a couple of grapes,' said he, 'which are included in some infinitesimal but noxious bacillus. The gardener goes by it through a disinfecting medium. It may be that he needs his grapes to be cleaner. It may be that he needs space to breed some fresh bacillus less noxious than the last. He dips it into the poison, and they're eliminated. Our gardener is, for me, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the planet earth, will in an instant be sterilised out of life.' Therefore Teacher Challenger makes plans to ensure that he and his partner and three good friends are immune system from the effects of the 'disinfecting medium', the poison belt, for as long as possible. Just as The Lost World, Conan Doyle experienced these ideas a long time before our modern filmmakers, and his elucidation of medical principles in these adventurous and thrilling tales had enormous appeal for an audience which gained its knowledge from books. Regretfully, the novel's ultimate appeal that 'solemnity and humility' would 'be the foundations upon which a more earnest and reverent competition may build a more deserving temple' fell on stony floor. Within a calendar year of its publication, the majority of European countries was embroiled in the most horrifying discord the planet experienced ever witnessed, where poisonous gas was to play an horrendous part.
