Page 372 - BRAVE NEW WORLD By Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley

believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one

believes for other bad reasons–that's philosophy.

People believe in God because they've been

conditioned to.

"But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is

natural to believe in God when you're alone–quite

alone, in the night, thinking about death "

"But people never are alone now," said

Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and

we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible

for them ever to have it."

The Savage nodded gloomily. At Malpais he

had suffered because they had shut him out from

the communal activities of the pueblo, in civilized

London he was suffering because he could never

escape from those communal activities, never be

quietly alone.

"Do you remember that bit in King Lear?"

said the Savage at last. "'The gods are just and of

our pleasant vices make instruments to plague us;

the dark and vicious place where thee he got cost

372
E-Text Conversion by Nalanda Digital Library