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"
Enormous
!
"
murmured
the
students
.
Mr
.
Foster
’
s
enthusiasm
was
infectious
.
He
became
rather
technical
;
spoke
of
the
abnormal
endocrine
co
-
ordination
which
made
men
grow
so
slowly
;
postulated
a
germinal
mutation
to
account
for
it
.
Could
the
effects
of
this
germinal
mutation
be
undone
?
Could
the
individual
Epsilon
embryo
be
made
a
revert
,
by
a
suitable
technique
,
to
the
normality
of
dogs
and
cows
?
That
was
the
problem
.
And
it
was
all
but
solved
.
Pilkington
,
at
Mombasa
,
had
produced
individuals
who
were
sexually
mature
at
four
and
full
-
grown
at
six
and
a
half
.
A
scientific
triumph
.
But
socially
useless
.
Six
-
year
?
old
men
and
women
were
too
stupid
to
do
even
Epsilon
work
.
And
the
process
was
an
all
-
or
-
nothing
one
;
either
you
failed
to
modify
at
all
,
or
else
you
modified
the
whole
way
.
They
were
still
trying
to
find
the
ideal
compromise
between
adults
of
twenty
and
adults
of
six
.
So
far
without
success
.
Mr
.
Foster
sighed
and
shook
his
head
.
Their
wanderings
through
the
crimson
twilight
had
brought
them
to
the
neighborhood
of
Metre
170
on
Rack
9
.
From
this
point
onwards
Rack
9
was
enclosed
and
the
bottle
performed
the
remainder
of
their
journey
in
a
kind
of
tunnel
,
interrupted
here
and
there
by
openings
two
or
three
metres
wide
.
"
Heat
conditioning
,
"
said
Mr
.
Foster
.
Hot
tunnels
alternated
with
cool
tunnels
.
Coolness
was
wedded
to
discomfort
in
the
form
of
hard
X
-
rays
.
By
the
time
they
were
decanted
the
embryos
had
a
horror
of
cold
.
They
were
predestined
to
emigrate
to
the
tropics
,
to
be
miner
and
acetate
silk
spinners
and
steel
workers
.
Later
on
their
minds
would
be
made
to
endorse
the
judgment
of
their
bodies
.
"
We
condition
them
to
thrive
on
heat
,
"
concluded
Mr
.
Foster
.
"
Our
colleagues
upstairs
will
teach
them
to
love
it
.
"
"
And
that
,
"
put
in
the
Director
sententiously
,
"
that
is
the
secret
of
happiness
and
virtue
–
liking
what
you
’
ve
got
to
do
.
All
conditioning
aims
at
that
:
making
people
like
their
unescapable
social
destiny
.
"
In
a
gap
between
two
tunnels
,
a
nurse
was
delicately
probing
with
a
long
fine
syringe
into
the
gelatinous
contents
of
a
passing
bottle
.
The
students
and
their
guides
stood
watching
her
for
a
few
moments
in
silence
.
"
Well
,
Lenina
,
"
said
Mr
.
Foster
,
when
at
last
she
withdrew
the
syringe
and
straightened
herself
up
.
