GUEST (Crazy Little Woman): Believe it. If you follow my link -- the title of the article I posted -- it will take you to a page in the NY Times archives that shows a scanned clipping from the newspaper. You'll have to scroll down to see it.

Why wouldn't an image derived from science fiction have appeared in an editorial in 1897? At the time, H.G. Wells had already published"The Time Machine", "The Island of Doctor Moreau" and "The Invisible Man", and he was working on "The War of the Worlds". But Mary Shelley had explored science in fiction far earlier than that: "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus" was published in 1818.