Question

Read this line from the war of the worlds: it necessarily follows that [mars] is not only more distant from time's beginning but nearer its end what does this line from the story tell you about mars?

Answer 1

H. G Wells comments on the age of the Red Planet with the aforementioned lines. 'More distant from time's beginning' implies that the planet Mars was older than Earth and had survived longer than it. Mars, thus, had travelled longer through time and was further from its creation or 'time's beginning' than Earth was to its own. Being born earlier, thus, the planet was also closer to its death, therefore being 'nearer it's end'.