ous foolishness. Winston was one of the last of our citizens to venture into the dangerous territory of independence, and we recall the gratitude he expressed when we rescued him from himself and returned him to the flock:
He gazed up at the enormous face [of Big Brother]. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark mustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! . . . But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother (Orwell 245).
This evil book, Childhood's End, will re-introduce such destructive---and self-destructive---thoughts of freedom and individualism into the populace. Not only will such thoughts lead to the kind of anti-social behavior
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