“And that, that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do. Our colleagues upstairs will teach them to love it.” (Ch 1) “Hasn’t it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?” (Ch 1) Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.” (Ch 1) “Reducing the number of revolutions per minute…the surrogate goes round slower therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals therefore gives the embryo less oxygen. We decant our babies as socialized human beings, as Alphas or Epsilons, as future sewage workers or future Directors of Hatcheries.” (Ch 1) Result: they’re decanted as freemartins - structurally quite normal (except that they do have the slightest tendency to grow beards) out of the realm of mere slavish imitation of nature into the much more interesting world of human invention.” (Ch 1) The others get a does of male sex-hormone every twenty-four metros for the rest of the course. So we allow as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos to develop normally. And of course one must always have an enormous margin of safety. One fertile ovary in twelve hundred - that would really be quite sufficient for our purposes. “For of course, in the vast majority of cases, fertility is merely a nuisance. You should see the way a negro ovary responds to pituitary! It’s quite astonishing, when you’re used to working with European material…Still, we mean to beat them if we can.” (Ch 1) Singapore has often produced over sixteen thousand five hundred and Mombasa has actually touched the seventeen thousand mark.
But of course they’ve done much better in some of the tropical Centres.
“Sixteen thousand and twelve in this Centre…Sixteen thousand and twelve in one hundred and eighty-nine batches of identicals. “And in exceptional cases we can make one ovary yield us over fifteen thousand adult individuals.” (Ch 1) For the first time in history…Community, Identity, Stability…If we could bokanovskify indefinitely the whole problem would be solved.” (Ch 1) “Ninety-six identical twins working ninety-six identical machines!…You really know where you are. “Can’t you see? Can’t you see?…Bokanovsky’s Process is one of the major instruments of social stability!” (Ch 1) We check the normal growth and, paradoxically enough, the egg responds by budding.” (Ch 1) “Essentially, bokanovskification consists of a series of arrests of development.
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