Closing Passage and Epilogue

From The Time Machine by Wells, H.G.
The novel ends with the narrator's reflection on the Time Traveller's disappearance three years prior, and the consolation offered by the two withered flowers Weena gave him.
Epilogue

The narrator's meditation on whether humanity's destiny is suicide, ending with the iconic image: 'And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers... to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of man.'

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