There’s a love scene on a bearskin rug they say it’s marvelous. “Going to the Feelies this evening, Henry? I hear the new one at the Alhambra is first-rate. “You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford’s: History is bunk. Nowadays the Controllers won’t approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicated of existing games.” (Ch. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. “Strange, strange to think that even in Our Ford’s day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. “Oh, Ford! I’ve gone and woken the children.” (Ch. The mind that judges and desires and decides - made up of these suggestions! But all these suggestions are our suggestions! Suggestions from the State.” (Ch. The adult’s mind too - all his life long. “Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the suggestion is the child’s mind. “Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.” (Ch. The story of Reuben Rabinovitch and hypnopedia. But then most historical facts are unpleasant.” (Ch. They’ll be safe from books and botany all their lives.” (Ch. “They’ll grow up with what the psychologists used to call an ‘instinctive’ hatred of books and flowers. “And now, now we proceed to rub in the lesson with a mild electric shock.” (Ch. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” (Ch 1) “And that, that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do. Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it.” (Ch 1) “Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?” (Ch 1) Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.” (Ch 1) “Reducing the number of revolutions per minute…the surrogate goes round slower therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future Directors of Hatcheries.” (Ch 1) Result: they’re decanted as freemartins - structurally quite normal (except that they do have the slightest tendency to grow beards) out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human invention.” (Ch 1) The others get a does of male sex-hormone every twenty-four metros for the rest of the course. So we allow as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos to develop normally. And of course one must always have an enormous margin of safety. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred - that would really be quite sufficient for our purposes. “For of course, in the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely a nuisance. You should see the way a negro ovary responds to pituitary! It’s quite astonishing, when you’re used to working with European material…Still, we mean to beat them if we can.” (Ch 1) Singapore has often produced over sixteen thousand five hundred and Mombasa has actually touched the seventeen thousand mark. But of course they’ve done much better in some of the tropical Centres. “Sixteen thousand and twelve in this Centre…Sixteen thousand and twelve in one hundred and eighty-nine batches of identicals. “And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.” (Ch 1) For the first time in history…Community, Identity, Stability…If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.” (Ch 1) “Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!…You really know where you are. “Can’t you see? Can’t you see?…Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!” (Ch 1) We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.” (Ch 1) “Essentially, bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development.
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