Out of those mighty loins a race of conscious beings must one day come. You were the dead, theirs was the… — George Orwell

Out of those mighty loins a race of conscious beings must one day come. You were the dead, theirs was the future. But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four.

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