We were also competing with the rest of the human race. ‘There are many, many stupid people on this earth,’ my father said. ‘They are not born stupid, they are made so through their enslavement to material things, to the petty concerns of the world. The brain is one of God’s greatest gifts to us, and to abuse it is an act of gross ingratitude. Yet most people are stupefied by the world. I hope, Gideon, that you will not be one of them.’
