

It has remained for Aldous Huxley to build the Utopia to end Utopias - or such Utopias as go to mechanics for their inspiration, at any rate. Where guinea pigs are bred to predestined fates.


Of the race and offered with becoming humility as contributions to the questionable science of human happiness, these classic Utopias have only too often seemed mere parodies of the Napoleonic State, the Taylor system of the laboratory Conceived in kindliness of spirit, dedicated to the high future The New York Times: Book Review Search Articleįebruary 7, 1932: ' Brave New World' by Aldous HuxleyĭIGNITY, beyond all else, has attended the creation of the classic Utopias, from that of Plato on down to Edward Bellamy's perfectly geared industrial machine.
