hey reach their fifteenth year. Then they go to work. In the Home of the Students
we arose when the big bell rang in the tower and we went to our beds when it
rang again. Before we removed our garments, we stood in the great sleeping hall,
and we raised our right arms, and we said all together with the three Teachers
at the head:
"We are nothing. Mankind is all. By the grace of our brothers are we allowed
our lives. We exist through, by and for our brothers who are the State. Amen."
Then we slept. The sleeping halls were white and clean and bare of all things
save one hundred beds.
We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those years in the Home of the Students.
It was not that the learning was too hard for us. It was that the learning was
too easy. This is a great sin, to be born with a head which is too quick. It
is not good to be different from our brothers, but it is evil to be superior
to them. The Teachers told us so, and they frowned when they looked upon us.
So we fought against thi
