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Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

thick black volume. "You've never read this, for

example."

The Savage took it. "The Holy Bible,

containing the Old and New Testaments," he read

aloud from the title-page.

"Nor this." It was a small book and had lost

its cover.

"The Imitation of Christ."

"Nor this." He handed out another volume.

"The Varieties of Religious Experience. By

William James."

"And I've got plenty more," Mustapha Mond

continued, resuming his seat. "A whole collection of

pornographic old books. God in the safe and Ford

on the shelves." He pointed with a laugh to his

avowed library–to the shelves of books, the rack full

of reading-machine bobbins and sound-track rolls.

"But if you know about God, why don't you

tell them?" asked the Savage indignantly. "Why

don't you give them these books about God?"

"For the same reason as we don't give them

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