author - "Ayn Rand"
hey reachtheir fifteenth year. Then they go to work.In the Home of the Students we arose whenthe big bell rang in the tower and we wentto our beds when it rang again. Before weremoved our garments, we stood in thegreat sleeping hall, and we raised our rightarms, and we said all together with thethree Teachers at the head:
"We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the graceof our brothers are we allowed our lives.We exist through, by and for our brotherswho are the State. Amen."
Then we slept. The sleeping halls were whiteand clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy inthose years in the Home of the Students.It was not that the learning was too hardfor us. It was that the learning was too easy.This is a great sin, to be born with ahead which is too quick. It is not goodto be different from our brothers, but itis evil to be superior to them. The Teacherstold us so, and they frowned when they looked upon us.
So we fought against thi
hey reachtheir fifteenth year. Then they go to work.In the Home of the Students we arose whenthe big bell rang in the tower and we wentto our beds when it rang again. Before weremoved our garments, we stood in thegreat sleeping hall, and we raised our rightarms, and we said all together with thethree Teachers at the head:
"We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the graceof our brothers are we allowed our lives.We exist through, by and for our brotherswho are the State. Amen."
Then we slept. The sleeping halls were whiteand clean and bare of all things save one hundred beds.
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy inthose years in the Home of the Students.It was not that the learning was too hardfor us. It was that the learning was too easy.This is a great sin, to be born with ahead which is too quick. It is not goodto be different from our brothers, but itis evil to be superior to them. The Teacherstold us so, and they frowned when they looked upon us.
So we fought against thi