Literary References
H. G. Wells, in Chapter One of his novel The War of the Worlds, published in 1898, wrote:
- "We must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals such as the vanished bison and dodo, but also upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years."
This text from H. G. Wells was originally included as one of Microsoft's speech recognition engine training exercises for the user to read out loud into the microphone, but the controversial paragraph at the end was removed in a later version.
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