Thus did men—men with nothing to offer save their great number—lost the steel towers, the flying ships, the power wires, all the things they had not created and could never keep.

就这样，人类——除了数量众多之外一无所有的人类——失去了钢塔、飞艇、电线，所有这些不是他们创造的，也永远无法保留的东西。