The War of the Worlds

War Of the Worlds

What does the author blame for man's ignorance of intelligent life on Mars?

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Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that intelligent life might have developed there far, or indeed at all, beyond its earthly level.

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The War of the Worlds