Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Wells , HG (2010-06-14), The War of the Worlds, SmartBookWorms, Retrieved on 2011-03-03
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    03 MAR 2011

     By the Toll of a Billion Deaths Have Humans Earned our Ri...

    These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things–taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here. But by virtue of this natural selection of our kind we have developed resisting power; to no germs do we succumb without a struggle, and to many–those that cause putrefaction in dead matter, for instance–our living frames are altogether immune… By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; i...
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    In H.G. Wells "War of the Worlds" the Martians are killed by bacteria on Earth, we are immune to these bacteria from billions of years of evolution. We own the Earth having spent the blood of billions of lives to evolve into it.

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