Anthem: Novel Summary: Chapter 12

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Chapter 12

Equality 7-2521, who now calls himself Prometheus, after the man who "taught men to be gods," now realizes that what he always considered his curse, his individuality, was and is a glorious blessing.  Now, the new Prometheus and the Golden One, who conceives of a child, believe that they will found a new race of men, a new renaissance of self. 

The individual explains, "the day will come when I shall break all the chains of the earth, and raze the cities of the enslaved, and my home will become the capital of a world where each man will be free to exist for his own sake."