The woman from Sealand justifies the eradication of the Waknuk people by asserting that a conflict must always come between a species that has advanced powers and the early form of the same species that has lesser powers. John Wyndham suggests, through the voice of the woman from Sealand, that a certain incapacity of mind--a certain incapacity for an expanded logic of mind--makes accepting advanced evolved human traits virtually impossible for humanity.
Wyndham carries this to its logical conclusion and has the Sealand woman declare that the higher form of the species must annihilate the lesser form. Wyndham's real hope is that readers will come to understand how lives are confined by the logic of the present order of life--a logic that cannot adapt to catastrophic reshaping of life and the world--and then learn to think "outside the box," as we might say today.
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