Read the following passage and questions, then choose the right answer from options, the answer should be one of A, B, C, D.

<passage>:
Which goes to prove that, in some magnificent Melopolis, encradling the Oracle of Delni. I do not, of still there is a grandeur in the very stones that transcends their human sculptors, and it is no wonder to me that many cling tenaciously, and ignorantly, to the old religion. Cling to the gods of old, who drew man upward from wherever he began. In whose names Man killed and plundered, while struggling up. In whose to live in peace with his knowledge and his power. Gone now are all the ancient evils, wars, emergencies. babbling in excitement. many jokes and, I fear, would have had a lonely life of it had it not "Gone? It cannot be gone. It has always been—" "All of it?" I asked. what will happen with no more children?" A man my age does not hurry in the heat of the midday sun—maddugs nenglishmin go out in the midday sun, as the ancients say, although I They are of an age to enter manhood, and have all the energy such young men do. As we entered the city, we were surrounded by confusion and consternation. And can the simple people be blamed? They were aware that they stood in the midst of an unprecedented happening emergency. For a machine had failed! Not in the memory of the eldest among us has a machine failed. They were created so long ago, indeed, that the ignorant believe them to have been constructed by the gods themselves. And never, so far as I know, has one failed. Small wonder that the watcher had been negligent. Indeed, the watcher is more a tradition than a necessity. Besides, had he been sober, he would not have known what to do. For who knows the mysterious workings of the machines? sacrifice, and finally, as the light of the sun was falling between the He rambled through the customary opening remarks and then, continually smoothing his white beard—of which he is excessively proud—approached the crux of the matter and the Conclave finally heard the facts it had had departed for home and supper. Yet perhaps it is for the best, for those left were the most earnest and intelligent. "I would not bore you," he said, "with details of which only the gods are sure. Know, then, that once granted a few cells of Prelife, it is an easy matter for the Maternite Machine to add more and more thus assuring us, as has always been, a continuous source of Prelife to be born by the Generating Machine as children. The machines bear the exact claim. Such it has always been from time immemorial." A murmur of assent and approval of these virtuous words whispered around the Hall. Indeed, I might call it an emergency. For the M-Maternite Machine has actually failed." Cries of "Treason" sprang up, and I fear it might have gone hard for has been dried up. It will not function. There is no more. And there At this I feared the Conclave was about to riot. It is at such times that I most revere the wisdom of the ancients, who decreed seventy years the minimum age for a member of the Conclave. They shouted and "Is there no way, then, to produce more Prelife in order that the machines may produce more children for us? "As I have said," he replied, "give the machines but a bit of Prelife and they will produce more. But take away that least bit, and they are helpless." Such heresy could have brought a sad end to the priest had not the Conclave been so exhausted by the events of the day. We leaned back to think. been a beginning to Prelife? For the Machine, it seems, cannot make it and yet it came from somewhere." "Riddles are not called for," I answered severely. "Are not riddles often the beginning of knowledge?" he asked, in that irritating dumber-than-thou attitude of his. "Must there not, long ago, have been a source of Prelife: a source now forgotten? And may it not even now—should we discover it—be available to us? I am reminded of the story of the animals of old—" "I know well the legend of the animals, but what does it have to "If it be so," I said, quieting the hub-bub that followed, "and I would men—if it were so, then, what of it?" "May it not be," Rocsates put in, "that these animals had no machines to reproduce their kind? For surely the gods would not grant machines "And how, then, did these animals reproduce?" I asked. "How, indeed? And is there not a legend—admitted only a legend—that says there was a time before the machines, and before the Maternite Machine, and that at such a time both the animals and Men reproduced from within their own bodies?" went on: and so delicate, that they are kept in an air-tight tomb lest, being handled, they be destroyed and all knowledge within them lost. different from the rest of us. To the advantage, your skin is fairer and your features more often handsomer than ours. To the disadvantage, your excretory system is not so mechanically dextrous as ours. And, you may say, why should this not be so? There is, indeed, no reason why we should all be identical. Perforce you have the advantage, perforce we cause for this? Do you not wonder, She's, whence you come and for what reason?" "Of course," he replied. "In the course of my reading I have read were created in that time, for not one of them mentions the machines. Then reproduction was carried on by individuals, without help of the land, but they have lived with us for all time somehow intimately related to the physical distinctions of the She's!" These last sentences were shouted to be heard above the roar of the seems to have been so simple that there was once a problem of over-population." Order was lost among the Conclave as each man turned to speak to his neighbor, and for some time I could not restore order. I realized that assembled overwhelmed him. "It seems," I shouted, "that there is a flaw in your logic." For if such there was, I was hopeful of dismissing the entire affair with no harm done. "For if people reproduced too often, why then this reproduction must have been a pleasant thing to do otherwise they would not have done so to excess. And if it was a pleasant thing to do, where is the necessity for the machines, and why were they created?" the process of reproduction was of such At this impudence the Conclave dissolved in an uproar, and I was beyond I needed a sufficient excuse to call a meeting of the Conclave, appearance—he looked as if he had not slept of late, nor eaten either. His eyes were sunken, and his features had doubled in age. He was bent "I have indeed discovered the secret of reproduction," he began. "After Life.' It seems to be some sort of a do-it-yourself pamphlet." He dropped the book on the table and rubbed his hands over his eyes. There was something in the man's behavior that commanded everyone's attention. He went on, speaking low. "The word 'Sex' is not defined, but it seems to mean...." His words trailed off. He was obviously unsure of how to continue. "I had better start at the beginning, I When he finished the Conclave sat in horrified silence. His words, "Shall not these organs which you mention have atrophied by now? With no use throughout all these generations, will they not have evolved into nothingness?" "I do not think so," Rocsates replied after a while. "What to us is an eon, to evolution is but an instant. And then the swelling of the undergo such an ordeal for the City? had been a horrible day. The inhuman indignity, the cries— "We do not deserve praise, Sias," he said. "The truth is, we ... we sort of enjoy it."

<question>:
Which sentence describes the central theme of this story?

<options>:
A History is doomed to repeat itself because humans fail to learn from their mistakes.
B A society that does not include younger generations in its governing bodies will fail to evolve.
C The death of curiosity, combined with overreliance on technology, will lead to an ignorant society.
D Too much emphasis on masculine ways of thinking and innovating will ruin a society.

<answer>:

C