“Can you deny that the Overlords have brought security, peace, and prosperity to the world?” “That is true. But they have taken our liberty. Man does not live—” “—by bread alone. Yes, I know—but this is the first age in which every man was sure of getting even that. In any case, what freedom have we lost compared with that which the Overlords have given us for the first time in human history?” “Freedom to control our own lives, under God’s guidance.” At last, thought Stormgren, we’ve got to the point. Basically, the conflict is a religious one, however much it may be disguised.
