A Canticle For Leibowitz
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Nicholas Sine
Period 4
5/11/98
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Throughout the history of mankind, man has wanted to learn. It was the
knowledge that has been kept with him for generations that has also kept the human race
from not progressing. More and more generations of man have evolved and yet one
element of life has lived on through the roughness of nature, plagues and even world wars.
Knowledge proves to be indestructible and unstoppable.
In the first section of A Canticle for Leibowitz, Fiat Homo, knowledge makes an
introduction by demonstrating its capability of surviving the first nuclear fallout via books
stored by the saint, Issaic Leibowitz. Now monks are memorizing and copying texts and
pictures that held the knowledge to the reproduction of society. The monks contributed
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