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(cid:14) BBBRRRAAAVVVEEE NNNEEEWWW WWWOOORRRLLLDDD (cid:13) BBByyy AAAllldddooouuusss HHHuuuxxxllleeeyyy (((111888999444---111999666333))(cid:2)) (cid:13) (cid:12) (cid:8) (cid:11) (cid:6) (cid:3) (cid:2) (cid:10) (cid:8) (cid:9) (cid:8) (cid:7) (cid:6) (cid:2) (cid:5) (cid:4) (cid:2) (cid:3) (cid:2) NNNAAALLLAAANNNDDDAAA DDDIIIGGGIIITTTAAALLL LLLIIIBBBRRRAAARRRYYY RRR(cid:1)EEEGGGIIIOOONNNAAALLL EEENNNGGGIIINNNEEEEEERRRIIINNNGGG CCCOOOLLLLLLEEEGGGEEE CCCAAALLLIIICCCUUUTTT,,, KKKEEERRRAAALLLAAA SSSTTTAAATTTEEE,,, IIINNNDDDIIIAAA Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) (cid:13) Contents (cid:2) (cid:13) (cid:12) (cid:8) Chapter One .......................(cid:11)....................... 3 Chapter Two............................................ 29 (cid:6) Chapter Three ...............(cid:3).......................... 47 (cid:2) Chapter Four ........................................... 86 Chapter Five............(cid:10).............................. 109 (cid:8) Chapter Six ........................................... 132 (cid:9) Chapter Seven....................................... 164 Chapter Eight ..(cid:8)...................................... 191 (cid:7) Chapter Nine ......................................... 219 Chapter Ten .......................................... 228 (cid:6) Chapter El(cid:2)even...................................... 238 Chapter Twelve ..................................... 270 (cid:5) Chapter Thirteen ................................... 292 (cid:4) Chapter Fourteen .................................. 312 Chapter Fifteen ..................................... 329 (cid:2) Chapter Sixteen .................................... 343 (cid:3) Chapter Seventeen................................ 364 (cid:2) Chapter Eighteen................................... 382 (cid:1) 2 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) Chapter One (cid:13) A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four (cid:2) stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL (cid:13) LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITION(cid:12)ING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World (cid:8)State’s motto, (cid:11) COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY. (cid:6) The enormous room on the ground floor faced (cid:3) (cid:2) towards the north. Cold for all the summer beyond (cid:10) the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, (cid:8) (cid:9) a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking som(cid:8)e draped lay figure, some pallid (cid:7) shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the (cid:6) glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a (cid:2) laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness. The (cid:5) overalls of the workers were white, their hands (cid:4) gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light (cid:2) was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow (cid:3) bar(cid:2)rels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain r(cid:1)ich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables. 3 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) "And this," said the Director opening the door, (cid:13) "is the Fertilizing Room." (cid:2) Bent over their instruments, three hundred (cid:13) Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of (cid:12) Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in (cid:8) (cid:11) the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whis(cid:6)tle, of absorbed (cid:3) concentration. A troop of n(cid:2)ewly arrived students, very young, pink and ca(cid:10)llow, followed nervously, (cid:8) rather abjectly, at the D(cid:9)irector’s heels. Each of them carried a notebook, in which, whenever the great (cid:8) (cid:7) man spoke, he desperately scribbled. Straight from the horse’s mout(cid:6)h. It was a rare privilege. The D. H. (cid:2) C. for Central London always made a point of (cid:5) personally conducting his new students round the (cid:4) various departments. (cid:2) "Just to give you a general idea," he would (cid:3) explain to them. For of course some sort of general (cid:2) idea they must have, if they were to do their work (cid:1) intelligently(cid:150)though as little of one, if they were to be good and happy members of society, as possible. 4 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) For particulars, as every one knows, make for virtue (cid:13) and happiness; generalities are intellectually (cid:2) necessary evils. Not philosophers but fret-sawyers (cid:13) and stamp collectors compose the backbone of (cid:12) society. (cid:8) (cid:11) "To-morrow," he would add, smiling at them with a slightly menacing geniali(cid:6)ty, "you’ll be settling (cid:3) down to serious work. You(cid:2) won’t have time for generalities. Meanwhile (cid:133)"(cid:10) (cid:8) Meanwhile, it was a(cid:9) privilege. Straight from the horse’s mouth into the notebook. The boys scribbled (cid:8) (cid:7) like mad. Tall and rat(cid:6)her thin but upright, the Director (cid:2) advanced into the room. He had a long chin and big (cid:5) rather prominent teeth, just covered, when he was (cid:4) not talking, by his full, floridly curved lips. Old, (cid:2) young? Thirty? Fifty? Fifty-five? It was hard to say. (cid:3) And anyhow the question didn’t arise; in this year of (cid:2) stability, A. F. 632, it didn’t occur to you to ask it. (cid:1) "I shall begin at the beginning," said the D.H.C. and the more zealous students recorded his 5 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) intention in their notebooks: Begin at the beginning. (cid:13) "These," he waved his hand, "are the incubators." (cid:2) And opening an insulated door he showed them (cid:13) racks upon racks of numbered test-tubes. "The (cid:12) week’s supply of ova. Kept," he explained, "at blood (cid:8) (cid:11) heat; whereas the male gametes," and here he opened another door, "they h(cid:6)ave to be kept at (cid:3) thirty-five instead of thirty-(cid:2)seven. Full blood heat sterilizes." Rams wrapped (cid:10)in theremogene beget no (cid:8) lambs. (cid:9) Still leaning against the incubators he gave (cid:8) (cid:7) them, while the pencils scurried illegibly across the pages, a brief d(cid:6)escription of the modern fertilizing (cid:2) process; spoke first, of course, of its surgical (cid:5) introduction(cid:150)"the operation undergone voluntarily (cid:4) for the good of Society, not to mention the fact that (cid:2) it carries a bonus amounting to six months’ salary"; (cid:3) continued with some account of the technique for (cid:2) preserving the excised ovary alive and actively (cid:1) developing; passed on to a consideration of optimum temperature, salinity, viscosity; referred to 6 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) the liquor in which the detached and ripened eggs (cid:13) were kept; and, leading his charges to the work (cid:2) tables, actually showed them how this liquor was (cid:13) drawn off from the test-tubes; how it was let out (cid:12) drop by drop onto the specially warmed slides of the (cid:8) (cid:11) microscopes; how the eggs which it contained were inspected for abnormalities, cou(cid:6)nted and transferred (cid:3) to a porous receptacle; how (cid:2)(and he now took them to watch the operation(cid:10)) this receptacle was (cid:8) immersed in a warm(cid:9) bouillon containing free- swimming spermatozoa(cid:150)at a minimum concentration (cid:8) (cid:7) of one hundred thousand per cubic centimetre, he insisted; and ho(cid:6)w, after ten minutes, the container (cid:2) was lifted out of the liquor and its contents re- (cid:5) examined; how, if any of the eggs remained (cid:4) unfertilized, it was again immersed, and, if (cid:2) necessary, yet again; how the fertilized ova went (cid:3) back to the incubators; where the Alphas and Betas (cid:2) remained until definitely bottled; while the Gammas, (cid:1) Deltas and Epsilons were brought out again, after only thirty-six hours, to undergo Bokanovsky’s 7 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) Process. (cid:13) "Bokanovsky’s Process," repeated the Director, (cid:2) and the students underlined the words in their little (cid:13) notebooks. (cid:12) One egg, one embryo, one adult-normality. But (cid:8) (cid:11) a bokanovskified egg will bud, will proliferate, will divide. From eight to ninety-six (cid:6)buds, and every bud (cid:3) will grow into a perfectly form(cid:2)ed embryo, and every embryo into a full-sized (cid:10)adult. Making ninety-six (cid:8) human beings grow wh(cid:9)ere only one grew before. Progress. (cid:8) (cid:7) "Essentially," the D.H.C. concluded, "bokanovskificati(cid:6)on consists of a series of arrests of (cid:2) development. We check the normal growth and, (cid:5) paradoxically enough, the egg responds by (cid:4) budding." (cid:2) Responds by budding. The pencils were busy. (cid:3) He pointed. On a very slowly moving band a (cid:2) rack-full of test-tubes was entering a large metal (cid:1) box, another, rack-full was emerging. Machinery faintly purred. It took eight minutes for the tubes to 8 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) go through, he told them. Eight minutes of hard X- (cid:13) rays being about as much as an egg can stand. A (cid:2) few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided (cid:13) into two; most put out four buds; some eight; all (cid:12) were returned to the incubators, where the buds (cid:8) (cid:11) began to develop; then, after two days, were suddenly chilled, chilled and (cid:6)checked. Two, four, (cid:3) eight, the buds in their tur(cid:2)n budded; and having budded were dosed almo(cid:10)st to death with alcohol; (cid:8) consequently burgeoned(cid:9) again and having budded(cid:150) bud out of bud out of bud(cid:150)were thereafter(cid:150)further (cid:8) (cid:7) arrest being generally fatal(cid:150)left to develop in peace. By which time th(cid:6)e original egg was in a fair way to (cid:2) becoming anything from eight to ninety-six (cid:5) embryos(cid:150) a prodigious improvement, you will agree, (cid:4) on nature. Identical twins(cid:150)but not in piddling twos (cid:2) and threes as in the old viviparous days, when an (cid:3) egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually (cid:2) by dozens, by scores at a time. (cid:1) "Scores," the Director repeated and flung out his arms, as though he were distributing largesse. 9 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library Brave New World By Aldous Huxley (cid:14) "Scores." (cid:13) But one of the students was fool enough to ask (cid:2) where the advantage lay. (cid:13) "My good boy!" The Director wheeled sharply (cid:12) round on him. "Can’t you see? Can’t you see?" He (cid:8) (cid:11) raised a hand; his expression was solemn. "Bokanovsky’s Process is o(cid:6)ne of the major (cid:3) instruments of social stability(cid:2)!" Major instruments of s(cid:10)ocial stability. (cid:8) Standard men and (cid:9)women; in uniform batches. The whole of a small factory staffed with the (cid:8) (cid:7) products of a single bokanovskified egg. "Ninety-six (cid:6)identical twins working ninety-six (cid:2) identical machines!" The voice was almost tremulous (cid:5) with enthusiasm. "You really know where you are. (cid:4) For the first time in history." He quoted the (cid:2) planetary motto. "Community, Identity, Stability." (cid:3) Grand words. "If we could bokanovskify indefinitely (cid:2) the whole problem would be solved." (cid:1) Solved by standard Gammas, unvarying Deltas, uniform Epsilons. Millions of identical twins. The 10 E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library

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