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Quotation from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
“slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth.”
The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter VIII (Dead London) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36)
On Primrose Hill the narrator finds the Martians dead in their great pit and describes what killed them.
Citation: "slain, after all man’s devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in his wisdom, has put upon this earth." — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter VIII (Dead London) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36). (id the-war-of-the-worlds-q4)
Portrait: H.G. Wells by Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.
