How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"Everything we ever achieved has gone up there into the stars. Perhaps that's what the old religions were trying to say. But they got it all wrong: they thought mankind was so important, yet we're only one race in—do you know how many? Yet now we've become something that you could never be." (24.51)
Humanity is unique in the universe in that there is no other species like it elsewhere. Then again, you can say that about the Overlords, too. In fact, is there any species you couldn't say that about? Probably not. And in Childhood's End, alien races symbolize other cultures and races of Earth.