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15 - Chapter 10 PDF
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in his Ape and Essence. Ape and Essence, the second of his
narrator talks and travels with Bob Briggs. Tnis part acts
1. Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop. The Sun Dial Press,
Garden City, New York, 1947, p. 282
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done much harm to the world. A scene from the world war III
depicts two combating armies of baboons. Each army has a
these New Zealanders could not travel anywhere for more than
Los Angeles after the world war III. The main part of Ape
working through human race during the third world war. The
dresses.
Belial Day women take off the 'No* patches from their dresses.
civilized man :
self interest. All the evidences from the first world war
generals and the common man has acted and led towards the
Instead of making the sign of cross the member:; make the sign
their stomachs. 'T' is the sign of the model car of the Ford.
past.
Belial has won the battles because man in his vanity has
In his Lord of the Files his abiding concern is the innate evil
in man. As he himself said :
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man produces evil as the bee produces honey
of Malfi,
future California have descended into mud^these two people Dr. j><
the society :
2. Ibid : p. 137.
3. Ibid : p. 138.
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He tells Loola that making love like human beings may not
everywhere be the right thing. But in their case and in
that time it is the right thing.
The novel ends with Dr. Poole and Loola sitting beside the
grave of Tallis and Dr. Poole appreciating Shelley's Adonais.
He reads Shelley's lines about the Spirit of Divine Love that
sustains this universe. The spirit burns in all things and
pervades all things. With Shelley Dr. Poole seems to announce
that the Divine Light now shines on him and is consuming the
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last remaining clouds of cold morality. Then they eat eggs /
has not left room for charity on his part. But the appre
surplus power :
And man has turned his face perversely towards the evil goal
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of being his own enemy. His acquisition of the two-edged
superfluity of material power has thrown him into the spiri >
tual problem of dealing with himself. The discovery of the
The fate of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had brought back these dread