His revised analysis is that their relationship is not one of lords and servants but of livestock and ranchers.
Deducing that the Morlocks have taken his time machine, he explores the Morlock tunnels, learning that they feed on the Eloi. He alters his theory, speculating that the human race has evolved into two species: the leisured classes have become the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes have become the brutish light-fearing Morlocks. Within their dwellings he discovers the machinery and industry that makes the above-ground paradise possible. Later in the dark, he is approached menacingly by the Morlocks, ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. Returning to the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller is shocked to find his time machine missing, and eventually concludes that it has been dragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure with heavy doors, locked from the inside, which resembles a Sphinx. His efforts to communicate with them are hampered by their lack of curiosity or discipline, and he speculates that they are a peaceful communist society, the result of humanity conquering nature with technology, and subsequently evolving to adapt to an environment in which strength and intellect are no longer advantageous to survival. They live in small communities within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings, doing no work and having a frugivorous diet. In the new narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that takes him to the year 802,701, where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, childlike adults.
He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator. The story begins when narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. After returning to the present, he tells the story of his travel to several guests, to their complete disbelief. He meets a member of the Eloi race who he adventures with in trying to retrieve his time machine, stolen by the Morlocks. The Time Traveller has constructed a time machine, and travels to the future to find two races of post-apocalyptic humans.
The Time Machine focuses on a man from Victorian England who is a close friend of the narrator, called the Time Traveller in the novel.
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