Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think that God had exempted [us]? He is not an insurance agent.
— The War of the Worlds
I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world
Where this quote comes from
Edward Prendick, the narrator of The Island of Doctor Moreau, says this after the beast folk turn violent. The full sentence continues: he lost faith in the sanity of the world when he saw it suffering the painful disorder of the island. He describes a blind fate, a pitiless machine, crushing everyone there, Moreau included.
Source: The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), Chapter 16
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