Julia Huxley

Aldous Huxley imagined a world where computerized genetic selection created a population happy with its lot.

All of the Earth's children are born in hatcheries, and the word mother has become an obscenity.

And here we have the bottling room.

Little embryos carefully bottled being rocked gently to and fro as they did in olden days when carried by their mothers.

Now boys, you must learn to distinguish between smut and science.

Brave New World was written at a time when Freud was publishing his research on human sexuality and as fascism and Nazism were on the rise in Europe.

His great-uncle was Matthew Arnold, poet and essayist.

His father, Leonard, editor of a literary journal, kept to his library.