What evidence from the novel the war of the worlds support the theme that human vanity can lead to trouble?

The main way in which H. G. Wells discusses the topic of human vanity is by showing how little people of the Earth thought about other planets. He says that the world was unprepared for the attack because people were too focused on this planet, and could not believe that intelligent beings could exist outside of Earth. This shows the vanity of humans which contributed to their destruction.

what are the excerpts?

the sentence that avoid faulty coordination is:

culture, which is well represented in philadelphia, plays a major role including theatre, music, and the visual arts.  

faulty coordination occurs when the writer gives equal importance two different ideas (clauses) which in fact are not equivalent. in order to correct a misplaced clause or idea, the writer can place less important or emphatic ideas in a relative clause as in the previous sentence.