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Childhood's End
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- To all outward appearances, she was still a baby, but round her now was a sense of latent power so terrifying that Jean could no longer bear to enter the nursery.
Chpt 19 *latent = potentially existing but not presently active
- All these potentialities, all these latent powers-we do not possess them, nor do we understand them.†
Chpt 20latent = potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- "It seems strange," said Jan, "that the Overmind chose you to do its work, if you have no trace of the paraphysical powers latent in mankind.†
Chpt 23
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(latent) potentially existing but not presently evident or active
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)