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Human existence has been less like a mountain torrent
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Last and First Men

Human existence has been lesslike a mountain torrent than a great sluggish river,seldom...

Human existence has been less
like a mountain torrent than a great sluggish river,
seldom broken by rapids

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Human existence has been less like a mountain torrent
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than a great sluggish river, seldom broken by rapids.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
28
Timestamp in Movie
00:05:47
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
fantasy, mystery, sci-fi
Production
N/A

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Two billion years ahead of us, a future race of humans finds itself on the verge of extinction. Almost all that is left in the world are lone and surreal monuments, beaming their message into the wilderness.
Ages of dormancy, often of stagnation, - Last and First Men 00:19
Ages of dormancy, often of stagnation,
At any stage of its career, humanity might have been exterminated - Last and First Men 00:20
At any stage of its career, humanity might have been extermi...
And so it was that humanity detected a volume of non-luminous gas. - Last and First Men 00:07
And so it was that humanity detected a volume of non-luminou...
Calculation showed that this object and the sun - Last and First Men 00:10
Calculation showed that this object and the sun
As a result of this, the sun would flare up and expand prodigiously. - Last and First Men 00:07
As a result of this, the sun would flare up and expand prodi...
Life would be quite impossible on any of the planets - Last and First Men 00:10
Life would be quite impossible on any of the planets
Some of our predecessors, - Last and First Men 00:12
Some of our predecessors,
But at length, our earlier species excelled itself - Last and First Men 00:15
But at length, our earlier species excelled itself
Ten more species succeeded one another on the plains of Neptune. - Last and First Men 00:05
Ten more species succeeded one another on the plains of Nept...
We, the 18th, are the last men. - Last and First Men 00:05
We, the 18th, are the last men.
If you could enter this world of the last men, - Last and First Men 00:11
If you could enter this world of the last men,
You would encounter creatures recognizably human, - Last and First Men 00:10
You would encounter creatures recognizably human,
Some of these fantastic beings you would find covered with fur or mole velvet, - Last and First Men 00:10
Some of these fantastic beings you would find covered with f...
Others display brown, yellow, or ruddy skin, - Last and First Men 00:09
Others display brown, yellow, or ruddy skin,
You might call us faun-like, ape-like, - Last and First Men 00:11
You might call us faun-like, ape-like,
Yet some characteristics are common to all of us. - Last and First Men 00:05
Yet some characteristics are common to all of us.
The upward-looking astronomical eye on the crown of the skull would shock you. - Last and First Men 00:06
The upward-looking astronomical eye on the crown of the skul...
This organ, when fully extended about a handbreadth from its bony case, - Last and First Men 00:14
This organ, when fully extended about a handbreadth from its...
Scattered about the green plains of our colonized planet, - Last and First Men 00:08
Scattered about the green plains of our colonized planet,
These buildings would seem like geometrical mountains to you. - Last and First Men 00:06
These buildings would seem like geometrical mountains to you...