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Intuition says that as time modernizes, people are getting less religious.
But, here are the two diferent closing remarks of H.G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds (1898), and its movie adaptation War of the Worlds (2005) narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Take note how they framed the ending of the same story.
The War of the Worlds (1898)
War of the Worlds (2005 film)
But, here are the two diferent closing remarks of H.G. Wells science fiction novel The War of the Worlds (1898), and its movie adaptation War of the Worlds (2005) narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Take note how they framed the ending of the same story.
The War of the Worlds (1898)
For so it had come about, as indeed I and many men might have foreseen had not terror and disaster blinded our minds. 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. But there are no bacteria in Mars, and directly these invaders arrived, directly they drank and fed, our microscopic allies began to work their overthrow. Already when I watched them they were irrevocably doomed, dying and rotting even as they went to and fro. It was inevitable. By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
War of the Worlds (2005 film)
From the moment the invaders arrived, breathed our air, ate and drank, they were doomed. They were undone, destroyed, after all of man's weapons and devices had failed, by the tiniest creatures that God in his wisdom put upon this earth. By the toll of a billion deaths, man had earned his immunity, his right to survive among this planet's infinite organisms. And that right is ours against all challenges. For neither do men live nor die in vain.
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