![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There must be men to tend them, men as steady as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment.” Once they grow up, if they all appear to live in bliss - “everybody is happy now” - it’s largely to do with a drug, soma, which numbs the brain. “Wheels must turn steadily, but cannot turn untended. “A love of nature keeps no factories busy,” the director of the London Hatchery explains to a group of visiting students. While the Alphas and Betas - the upper classes - remain in incubators till they are bottled, the working classes including the Gammas, Deltas (who wear khaki) and Epsilons are brought out from time to time so that they can be indoctrinated for “social stability.” One of the ways to do it is teaching eight-month-old Delta babies to have “instinctive hatred of books and flowers” when they grow up. ![]()
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