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Till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the suggestions are the child’s mind. And the adult’s mind too—all his life long

Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes; but to keep the tendency to consume transport.

Christianity without tears—that’s what soma is.”

But industrial civilization is only possible when there’s no self-denial. Self-indulgence keeps the wheels turning

postulated a mutation to account for it [

the rate of thirty-three and a third centimetres an hour .

Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?

The act of criticizing made him feel important

Adults intellectually and during working hours,” he went on. “Infants where feeling and desire are concerned. It might be possible to be an adult all the time.”

Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly—they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. That’s