![]() It is widely considered to be one of the most important and influential works of modern literature. Happiness has got to be paid for.Brave New World is a dystopian novel written by Aldous Huxley in 1931. It hasn’t been very good for truth, of course. People were ready to have even their appetites controlled then. What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when the anthrax bombs are popping all around you? That was when science first began to be controlled - after the Nine Years’ War. That made them change their tune all right. Right up to the time of the Nine Years’ War. People still went on talking about truth and beauty as though they were sovereign goods. Still, in spite of everything, unrestricted scientific resarch was still permitted. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered. Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning truth and beauty can’t. Our Ford himself did a great deal to shift the emphasise from truth and beauty to comfort and hapiness. True, ideas were beginning to change even then. Knowledge was the highest good, truth the supreme value all the rest was secondary and subordinate. The seemed to imagine that it could go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. … It’s curious … to read what people in the time of Our Ford used to write about scientific progress. ![]() But truth’s a menace, science is a public danger.
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