Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.
‘God isn’t compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness.‘The religious sentiment tends to develop as we grow older to develop because, as the passions grow calm, as the fancy and sensibilities are less excited and less excitable, our reason become less troubled in its working, less obscured by the images, desires and distractions, in which it used to be absorbed…that phenomenal existence is no more bolstered up by impressions from within or from without, we feel the need to lean on something that abides, something that will never play us false – a reality, an absolute and everlasting truth.’ Mustapha Mond.‘They say that it is the fear of death and of what comes after death that makes men turn to religion as they advance in years.’ Mustapha Mond.Science is dangerous we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.’ Mustapha Mond It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness it’s also science. ‘That’s another item in the cost of stability.And being contended has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. ‘Stability isn’t nearly so spectacular as instability.
We have the feelies and the scent organ instead.’ Mustapha Mond You’ve got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. ‘But that’s the price we have to pay for stability.And if anything should go wrong, there’s soma.’ Mustapha Mond They’re well off they’re safe they’re never ill they’re not afraid of death they’re blissfully ignorant of passion and old age they’re plagued with no mothers or fathers they’ve got no wives, or children, or lovers to feel strongly about they’re so conditioned that they practically can’t help behaving as they ought to behave. People are happy they get what they want, and they never want what they can’t get. We want them to like the new ones.’ Mustapha Mond Beauty’s attractive, and we don’t want people to be attracted by old things. ‘It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes- make them lose their faith in happiness as the Sovereign Good and take believing, instead, that the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge.’ Mustapha Mond.
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