Ocupation: Writer
Life: September 21, 1866 - August 13, 1946
Birthday: September 21
Death: August 13
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.
source: H. G. Wells (1898). “The War of the Worlds”, p.270
topic: Men, Tolls, Earth, Martians