“By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthr…” H. G. Wells

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Portrait of H. G. Wells — H. G. Wells (spoken by The narrator)
*The War of the Worlds*, Book Two, Chapter VIII (Dead London) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36)

The narrator explains that humanity's resistance to bacteria was won through ages of natural selection.

Citation: "By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers" — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter VIII (Dead London) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36). (id the-war-of-the-worlds-q5)

Portrait: H.G. Wells by Beresford, George Charles Beresford, Public domain.

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