All men are the same.

They have the same organs, the same instincts, the same desires, which in essence are but two, food and rebirth that Nature commands; though it is true that millions of years before I was born, as I have learned from the records of the Sons of Wisdom, it was said that they were half ape.

Yet being the same there is between them a whole sea of difference, since some have knowledge and others none, or little.

Those who have none or little, among whom you must be numbered, are Barbarians.

Those who have much, among whom my daughter and I are the sole survivors, are the Instructed." "There are nearly two thousand millions of living people in this world," I said, "and you name all of them Barbarians ?" "All, Humphrey, excepting, of course, myself and my daughter who are not known to be alive.