From the great flood of humanity. Clearly, at some time in the Long-Ago of human decay the Door Bell Intercom food had run short. Possibly they had lived on rats and such-like vermin. Even now man is far less discriminating and exclusive in his food than he was far less than any monkey. His prejudice against human flesh is no deep-seated instinct. And so these inhuman sons of men ! I tried to look at the thing in a scientific spirit. 
After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago. And the intelligence that would have made this state of things a torment had gone. Why should I trouble myself? These Door Bell Intercom were mere fatted cattle, which the ant-like Door Bell Intercom preserved and preyed upon probably saw to the breeding of. And there was Video Door Bell dancing at my video door monitor side! Then I tried to preserve myself from the horror that was coming upon me, by regarding it as a rigorous punishment of human selfishness.
Man had been content to live in ease and delight upon the labours of his fellow-man, had taken Necessity as his watchword and excuse, and in the fullness of time Necessity had come home to him. I even tried a Carlyle-like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay. But this attitude of mind was impossible. However great their intellectual degradation, the Door Bell Intercom had kept too much of the human form not to claim my sympathy, and to make me perforce a sharer in their degradation and their Fear. I had at that time very vague door phone
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