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You
cannot
pour
upper
-
caste
champagne
-
surrogate
into
lower
-
caste
bottles
.
It
’
s
obvious
theoretically
.
But
it
has
also
been
proved
in
actual
practice
.
The
result
of
the
Cyprus
experiment
was
convincing
.
"
"
What
was
that
?
"
asked
the
Savage
.
Mustapha
Mond
smiled
.
"
Well
,
you
can
call
it
an
experiment
in
rebottling
if
you
like
.
It
began
in
A
.
F
.
473
.
The
Controllers
had
the
island
of
Cyprus
cleared
of
all
its
existing
inhabitants
and
re
-
colonized
with
a
specially
prepared
batch
of
twenty
-
two
thousand
Alphas
.
All
agricultural
and
industrial
equipment
was
handed
over
to
them
and
they
were
left
to
manage
their
own
affairs
.
The
result
exactly
fulfilled
all
the
theoretical
predictions
.
The
land
wasn
’
t
properly
worked
;
there
were
strikes
in
all
the
factories
;
the
laws
were
set
at
naught
,
orders
disobeyed
;
all
the
people
detailed
for
a
spell
of
low
-
grade
work
were
perpetually
intriguing
for
high
-
grade
jobs
,
and
all
the
people
with
high
-
grade
jobs
were
counter
-
intriguing
at
all
costs
to
stay
where
they
were
.
Within
six
years
they
were
having
a
first
-
class
civil
war
.
When
nineteen
out
of
the
twenty
-
two
thousand
had
been
killed
,
the
survivors
unanimously
petitioned
the
World
Controllers
to
resume
the
government
of
the
island
.
Which
they
did
.
And
that
was
the
end
of
the
only
society
of
Alphas
that
the
world
has
ever
seen
.
"
The
Savage
sighed
,
profoundly
.
"
The
optimum
population
,
"
said
Mustapha
Mond
,
"
is
modelled
on
the
iceberg
–
eight
-
ninths
below
the
water
line
,
one
-
ninth
above
.
"
"
And
they
’
re
happy
below
the
water
line
?
"
"
Happier
than
above
it
.
Happier
than
your
friend
here
,
for
example
.
"
He
pointed
.
"
In
spite
of
that
awful
work
?
"
"
Awful
?
They
don
’
t
find
it
so
.
On
the
contrary
,
they
like
it
.
It
’
s
light
,
it
’
s
childishly
simple
.
No
strain
on
the
mind
or
the
muscles
.
Seven
and
a
half
hours
of
mild
,
unexhausting
labour
,
and
then
the
soma
ration
and
games
and
unrestricted
copulation
and
the
feelies
.
What
more
can
they
ask
for
?
True
,
"
he
added
,
"
they
might
ask
for
shorter
hours
.
And
of
course
we
could
give
them
shorter
hours
.
Technically
,
it
would
be
perfectly
simple
to
reduce
all
lower
-
caste
working
hours
to
three
or
four
a
day
.
But
would
they
be
any
the
happier
for
that
?
No
,
they
wouldn
’
t
.
The
experiment
was
tried
,
more
than
a
century
and
a
half
ago
.
The
whole
of
Ireland
was
put
on
to
the
four
-
hour
day
.
What
was
the
result
?
Unrest
and
a
large
increase
in
the
consumption
of
soma
;
that
was
all
.
Those
three
and
a
half
hours
of
extra
leisure
were
so
far
from
being
a
source
of
happiness
,
that
people
felt
constrained
to
take
a
holiday
from
them
.
The
Inventions
Office
is
stuffed
with
plans
for
labour
-
saving
processes
.
Thousands
of
them
.
"
Mustapha
Mond
made
a
lavish
gesture
.
"
And
why
don
’
t
we
put
them
into
execution
?
For
the
sake
of
the
labourers
;
it
would
be
sheer
cruelty
to
afflict
them
with
excessive
leisure
.
It
’
s
the
same
with
agriculture
.
We
could
synthesize
every
morsel
of
food
,
if
we
wanted
to
.
But
we
don
’
t
.
We
prefer
to
keep
a
third
of
the
population
on
the
land
.
For
their
own
sakes
–
because
it
takes
longer
to
get
food
out
of
the
land
than
out
of
a
factory
.
