The Titanic fell victim to the power of nature over man. Society thought that it had beaten the unbeatable, made an unsinkable ship. It was said that the Titanic ended an age of technological innocence. Man's trust in machines and and science was let down on April 14, 1912, the night the Titanic sank.
"The story (of the Titanic) has a retained a remarkable power...Some disasters are undeniably acts of God, but the Titanic sinking has always seemed ambiguous. Although caused by an iceberg, it was also man-made, the result of the state of mind--grandiose, avaricious, and self-confident of the British and American magnates and engineers who conveived and built the ship."