Knowledge
Are Human Beings Too Fast?
In the short story By The Waters of Bablyon a boy named John accompanied his father on searching and releasing deceased people.  John had often talked to his father and during one of his talks he dad said, " If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth."  John wonders throughout if too much knowledge too fast is a problem.  He decides that in the old days thats why so many people died.  This same question leads him to risk his life.