The Importance Of Knowledge In Ayn Rand's Anthem

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"Anthem" by Ayn Rand portrays these sentiments. Within the book people are purposefully maintianed ignorant. Limiting knowledge would not create this society. It would only prevent the destruction of humanity.The limitation of knowledge would only be applied to extreme cases. Sciences relating life should remain elisive and vague. Such as the search for the Elixir of life. If only extreme searches for knowlegde are limited then society will continue progressing. It will not regress as drastically as

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