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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

" about sixty thousand Indians and half-

breeds absolute savages our inspectors

occasionally visit otherwise, no communication

whatever with the civilized world still preserve

their repulsive habits and customs marriage, if

you know what that is, my dear young lady; families

no conditioning monstrous superstitions

Christianity and totemism and ancestor worship

extinct languages, such as Zuñi and Spanish and

Athapascan pumas, porcupines and other

ferocious animals infectious diseases priests

venomous lizards "

"You don't say so?"

They got away at last. Bernard dashed to

the telephone. Quick, quick; but it took him nearly

three minutes to get on to Helmholtz Watson. "We

might be among the savages already," he

complained. "Damned incompetence!"

"Have a gramme," suggested Lenina.

He refused, preferring his anger. And at last,

thank Ford, he was through and, yes, it was

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