Childhood’s End
“Two Paths Diverge In Human Progress” Can man go any further without assistance? This is the underlying question in the book Childhood’s End. From the very start we are introduced to the Overlords who have come to earth in order to save man from self-destruction. Childhood’s End is of human progress. “In some way or other man journeys to contact with the unknown, and comes face to face simultaneously with the possibility of transcendence and the limits of his humanity”(Slusser 155). This transformation is brought about by the Overmind. A critic describes the Overmind and Overlord interplay as “a reworking of the morality-play situation of the Devil trying to steal away from God the souls of men”(Samuelson 104). This is a good idea and can a lot of explaining for the reader. The idea that the Overmind is a God-like being makes sense in that this is the reason for converting the children of earth into something greater perhaps so they can enter the Kingdom of God. With the Overlords help man quickly went as far as he could with science and technology, “the price man must pay for continued progress is the human form divine”(Slusser 153). But what are the Overlords and Overmind tryin
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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