Chapters 25-27 Summary

In Chapter Twenty-five, the man tells Burton that he has a fractured skull, and that he should be dead from his injuries. He also reveals to Burton that he is an Ethical, but working against their experiment because he believes what they are doing to their ancestors is wrong. Burton and the other thirty-six or thirty-seven billion people have indeed been brought back as part of a large experiment, that they will all be disposed of when the experiment comes to an end. The Ethical tells him that the others are on their way, and gives him a capsule that will kill him and destroy his brain cells so that the Ethicals cannot discover what their traitor has told him.

In Chapter Twenty-six, Burton awakens next to Goring yet again, and is quickly grabbed by a number of small dark-skinned men...