"A pity, he thought, as he signed his name. it was a masterly piece of work. But once you began admitting explanations in terms of purpose-well, you didn't know what the result might be. It was the sort of idea that might easily decondition the more unsettled minds among the higher castes-make them lose their faith in the happiness at the Sovereign Good and take to 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" (Huxley 177).
In arguing on both sides of how scientific and technological advancement benefits humanity is demonstrated when Mustapha Mond reads a paper on Biology which was written by one of the conditioned scientist's in the brave new world. Once he reads it Mond finds the paper fairly interesting but it would be a threat to the society so he chooses for the paper to not be published and for the author to be sent to St. Helena. The positive affects of living in a society where everyone is conditioned and to only believe in certain aspects of the world is that the people in this society rarely have to think about what something is if they do not know what it is such as trying to know what the difference between a prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The negative affects to living in this type of society is that when someone such as the scientist who wrote the paper on biology are seen as a danger to the brave new world society because they could possibly decondition some of the unsettled minds like Bernard's and then they get sent away to far more worse to live and can never have their opinions heard seriously by their peers.
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