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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

life. The President reached out his hand; and

suddenly a Voice, a deep strong Voice, more musical

than any merely human voice, richer, warmer,

more vibrant with love and yearning and

compassion, a wonderful, mysterious, supernatural

Voice spoke from above their heads. Very slowly,

"Oh, Ford, Ford, Ford," it said diminishingly and on a

descending scale. A sensation of warmth radiated

thrillingly out from the solar plexus to every

extremity of the bodies of those who listened; tears

came into their eyes; their hearts, their bowels

seemed to move within them, as though with an

independent life. "Ford!" they were melting, "Ford!"

dissolved, dissolved. Then, in another tone,

suddenly, startlingly. "Listen!" trumpeted the voice.

"Listen!" They listened. After a pause, sunk to a

whisper, but a whisper, somehow, more penetrating

than the loudest cry. "The feet of the Greater

Being," it went on, and repeated the words: "The

feet of the Greater Being." The whisper almost

expired. "The feet of the Greater Being are on the

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