What does this line tell you about the relationship between humans and the aliens?
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us.
Humans are searching for the aliens.
The aliens are disinterested in humans.
Humans are friends with the aliens.
The aliens are more intelligent than humans.