![]() ![]() Eugenics is a slightly perverted form of Evolution, the process by which Nature nurtures and culls, letting the ‘fittest survive’ and the weaklings perish. So are the desires for noble birth and dignified death, namely eugenics and euthanasia. “I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals, and I loathe humanity, for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”-Ayn Randīirth and Death are both topics that have always fascinated the human mind. ![]() He had rediscovered the lost and holy word-I. He was marked for death because he had committed the unpardonable sin: He had stood forth from the mindless human herd. But these were not the crimes for which he would be hunted. ![]() In an age that had lost all trace of science and civilization, he had the courage to seek and find knowledge. In a loveless world, he dared to love the woman of his choice. ![]() In all that was left of humanity there was only one man who dared to think, seek, and love. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one-the great WE. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. Anthem is Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a dystopian future of the great “We”-a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence-that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. ![]()
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