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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

over their test-tubes, the Predestinators whistled as

they worked, and in the Decanting Room what

glorious jokes were cracked above the empty

bottles! But the Director's face, as he entered the

Fertilizing Room with Henry Foster, was grave,

wooden with severity.

"A public example," he was saying. "In this

room, because it contains more high-caste workers

than any other in the Centre. I have told him to

meet me here at half-past two."

"He does his work very well," put in Henry,

with hypocritical generosity.

"I know. But that's all the more reason for

severity. His intellectual eminence carries with it

corresponding moral responsibilities. The greater a

man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray.

It is better that one should suffer than that many

should be corrupted. Consider the matter

dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no

offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour.

Murder kills only the individual–and, after all, what

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