Monday, June 13, 2005

The Brave New World of Cloning--Part One

http://www.crosswalk.com/news/weblogs/mohler/?adate=6/13/2005#1335088

[Crosswalk.com] June 13, 2005--"I was convinced that there was still plenty of time." With those words the author Aldous Huxley looked back to 1931, and the publication of his famous novel Brave New World. Huxley's vision of an oppressive culture of total authoritarian control and social engineering was among the most shocking literary events of the twentieth century. But just 27 years after the publication of Brave New World, Huxley was already aware of his underestimation of the threat represented by modern technocratic society.

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