Question

question 4 of 10
what evidence from the novel the war of the worlds supports the theme that human vanity can lead to trouble?

a. the martians seem to have calculated their descent with amazing subtlety — their mathematical learning is evidently far in excess of ours — and to have carried out their preparations with a well - nigh perfect unanimity.

b. 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.

c. but, looking, i presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks — like eyes.

d. it required a certain amount of scientific education to perceive that the grey scale of the thing was no common oxide, that the yellowish - white metal that glamed in the crack between the lid and the cylinder had an unfamiliar hue.

Explanation:

Answer:

B. 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.