“We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as …” 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 X (The Epilogue) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36)

The narrator draws the lesson of the invasion for humanity's view of its own future.

Citation: "We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man" — H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book Two, Chapter X (The Epilogue) (Project Gutenberg eBook #36). (id the-war-of-the-worlds-q7)

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

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