Wrote the satiric Brave New World to show what he considered to be threats to civilization as we now know it: mind control, selective breeding of human beings in the laboratory, biogenetic engineering, the relentless pursuit of scientific “progress,” etc. His novels range from social satire to serious philosophical inquiry: Chrome Yellow (1921), Point Counter Point (1928), Brave New World Revisited (1958), and others. Born into a distinguished family of British scientists and intellectuals.

Novelist, a man of letters, social critic, mystic. “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” About The AuthorĪldous Huxley (1894–1963), was born in Surrey, England. One of our favourite quotes from Brave New World is: Quick Summary: Aldous Huxley’s profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anaesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls.

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