Science and Conscience in Huxley's "Brave New World" Author(s): Peter Firchow Source: Contemporary Literature , Summer, 1975, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer, 1975), pp. 301-316 Published by: University of Wisconsin Press Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1207404 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms University of Wisconsin Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Contemporary Literature This content downloaded from 143.107.252.199 on Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:05:14 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SCIENCE AND CONSCIENCE IN HUXLEY'S BRAVE NEW WORLD Peter Firchow Science was in the Huxley blood, or, if one wishes to be less La- marckian and more Lockean about it, in the Huxley air. Aldous Huxley certainly had it from infancy and so did many another offspring of Darwin's bulldog, his brother and half-brothers among them. Before his partial blindness made it an absolute impossibility, Huxley had prepared himself for a career in biology, and though he eventually became more than reconciled to being a litterateur, the old hankering after strange scientific gods-and devils-never left him.