BREAKING NEWS: He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power · War of the Worlds (HG Wells, 1898)   ◼  BREAKING NEWS: He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power · War of the Worlds (HG Wells, 1898)  ◼  BREAKING NEWS: He had swept it out of existence, as it seemed, without any provocation, as a boy might crush an ant hill, in the mere wantonness of power · War of the Worlds (HG Wells, 1898)