‘Listen patiently… We, who are the Last Men, earnestly desire to communicate with you.’ Existence has always been precarious. Humanity might have been exterminated by some slight alteration to its chemical environment, by a more than usually malignant microbe, by a radical change of climate, by the manifold effects of its own folly, or by some celestial event.<\/p>\n
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