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Springing from a base twenty or more miles across
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Last and First Men

Springing from a basetwenty or more miles across, the star-seeking towers attain a...

Springing from a base
twenty or more miles across, the star-seeking towers attain a height
where even the atmosphere is breached

Full Transcript

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Springing from a base twenty or more miles across,
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the star-seeking towers attain a height where even the atmosphere is breached.
Duration
11 seconds
Views
25
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:53
Uploaded
Jun 04, 2025
Genres
fantasy, mystery, sci-fi
Production
N/A

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Movie Summary

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.
Some of them are almost as old as our species. - Last and First Men 00:05
Some of them are almost as old as our species.
Every successive culture has expressed itself - Last and First Men 00:08
Every successive culture has expressed itself
In their summits work the hosts of our astronomers: - Last and First Men 00:12
In their summits work the hosts of our astronomers:
Each of us goes there, at one time or another. - Last and First Men 00:04
Each of us goes there, at one time or another.
Together, we perform the symbolic acts - Last and First Men 00:09
Together, we perform the symbolic acts
Our children are very different beings from the first human children. - Last and First Men 00:05
Our children are very different beings from the first human ...
Their number in our world is small in relation to our immense population. - Last and First Men 00:06
Their number in our world is small in relation to our immens...
Yet, seeing that every one of us is potentially immortal, - Last and First Men 00:10
Yet, seeing that every one of us is potentially immortal,
Our policy is to produce new individuals of a higher order than ourselves. - Last and First Men 00:07
Our policy is to produce new individuals of a higher order t...
As a result, we need a continuous supply of children. - Last and First Men 00:05
As a result, we need a continuous supply of children.
Infancy lasts for about a century - Last and First Men 00:08
Infancy lasts for about a century
When our children attain physical adolescence, nearly a thousand years after birth, - Last and First Men 00:18
When our children attain physical adolescence, nearly a thou...
There, our young people live the half-primitive, half-sophisticated life - Last and First Men 00:09
There, our young people live the half-primitive, half-sophis...
They love - Last and First Men 00:06
They love
We live through all the mistakes of thought and action - Last and First Men 00:09
We live through all the mistakes of thought and action
And, at last, we emerge ready for a world of maturity. - Last and First Men 00:07
And, at last, we emerge ready for a world of maturity.
The designers of our species set out to produce a new order of mentality - Last and First Men 00:11
The designers of our species set out to produce a new order ...
The immense difference between ourselves and all other human species - Last and First Men 00:10
The immense difference between ourselves and all other human...
When these individuals join in simultaneous mental unity, - Last and First Men 00:11
When these individuals join in simultaneous mental unity,
They are able to enter into past minds. - Last and First Men 00:04
They are able to enter into past minds.