“ 'So you think that you have found a new power,” said Collective 0-0009. 'Do all your brothers think that? ' 'No, ' we answered. 'What is not thought by all men cannot be true, ' said Collective 0-0009” Rand writes on page 73 of her 1946 American edition of her intriguing novel Anthem. The World Council of Scholars reinforced to Equality 7- 2521 exactly what they had taught him all of his life: it 's wrong to envisage that he 's equal to a Scholar as a Street Sweeper, although, even assuming he had been chosen to be a Scholar, it would still be evil for him to imagine a product without the assistance of numerous other men. In the world of Anthem, it took twenty men to righteously invent the candle, as it 's conveyed on page 68, therefore
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Multiple people may feel as if they need technology, still it 's not a stipulation; whether or not one feels the need for social correlation, all whether mentally, socially, or for the sake of the human race, need communion. Men have prospered without engineering in the past, and are still capable of it. On the contrary, humans have never had ample success with solitude. Moreover, this argument exemplifies the metaphysical theme of the book, in that the laws in the dystopian world portrayed in Anthem seem to follow human nature; conversely, they 're sinister. This is because to live doesn 't connote one to humble oneself for others. It 's morally responsible to occasionally step out of your way for others, but to live your life doing nothing except this is not living. One must realize that they 're relevant, too, and they must possess a reasonable self esteem. On page 74, Similarity 5- 0306 states that, “ 'men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men '”, and he 's right, but he 's also wrong. Men may rely on other men and, therefore, exist for one another; except, how is one fully served if one doesn 't serve thyself occasionally? One will certainly turn vane if served unanimously for eternity. Therefore, constant reverence destroys societies; Prometheus confirms this on page 102. This frequent reverence is what caused a society built on individuals ' ideas to fall, as it will every
Multiple people may feel as if they need technology, still it 's not a stipulation; whether or not one feels the need for social correlation, all whether mentally, socially, or for the sake of the human race, need communion. Men have prospered without engineering in the past, and are still capable of it. On the contrary, humans have never had ample success with solitude. Moreover, this argument exemplifies the metaphysical theme of the book, in that the laws in the dystopian world portrayed in Anthem seem to follow human nature; conversely, they 're sinister. This is because to live doesn 't connote one to humble oneself for others. It 's morally responsible to occasionally step out of your way for others, but to live your life doing nothing except this is not living. One must realize that they 're relevant, too, and they must possess a reasonable self esteem. On page 74, Similarity 5- 0306 states that, “ 'men have no cause to exist save in toiling for other men '”, and he 's right, but he 's also wrong. Men may rely on other men and, therefore, exist for one another; except, how is one fully served if one doesn 't serve thyself occasionally? One will certainly turn vane if served unanimously for eternity. Therefore, constant reverence destroys societies; Prometheus confirms this on page 102. This frequent reverence is what caused a society built on individuals ' ideas to fall, as it will every