Huxley, who has had the opportunity to visit moving-picture emporium and radio studio, knows the difference between possibility and actuality in popular entertainment. Seemingly made of breeding the bureaucracy of the first Napoleon with the ghostly positive of August Comte and its ideas of dispensing panem et circenses to the populace are precisely those of Edward Bellamy's ''Lookingīackward'' - only Mr. It is as regimented as Etienne Cabet's Icaria, the communal Utopia His Utopia has much in common with those of the nineteenth century - everything, in fact, but their informing and propulsive faith. Youngs - all who would go back on laissez-faire and So here we have him, as entertainingly atrabilious asĮver he was in ''Antic Hay'' or ''Point Counter Point,'' mocking the Fords, the Hitlers, the Mussolinis, the Sir Alfred Monds, the Owen D. Unstable equilibrium and if the human animal ever ceases to do this he will go to the ant (the sluggard!) and become a hived creature. Mankind moves forward by stumbling - we almost said progressing - from one unstable equilibrium to another Huxley seems to be saying under the noise made by his knockabout farce, is thoroughly unbiological. Trustification of mankind, and has made rowdy and impertinent sport of the World State whose motto shall be Community, Identity, Stability. 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.
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