title: Brave New World
author:  Aldous Huxley 
description: &quot;Community, Identity, Stability&quot; is the motto of Aldous Huxley's utopian World State. Here everyone consumes daily grams of soma, to fight depression, babies are born in laboratories, and the most popular form of entertainment is a &quot;Feelie,&quot; a movie that stimulates the senses of sight, hearing, and touch. Though there is no violence and everyone is provided for, Bernard Marx feels something is missing and senses his relationship with a young women has the potential to be much more than the confines of their existence allow. Huxley foreshadowed many of the practices and gadgets we take for granted today--let's hope the sterility and absence of individuality he predicted aren't yet to come.
  						    	
  						        	--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
zlib_text: **Brave New World**
  
  by
  
  Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963)
  
   **Chapter One**
  
  A SQUAT grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the
  words,
  
  CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World
  
  State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.
  
  The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the north. Cold for all
  the
  
  summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh
  thin
  
  light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure,
  some
  
  pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel
  and
  
  bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to wintriness.
  The
  
  overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-
  coloured
  
  rubber. The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of
  the
  
  microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the
  
  polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious s