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Aldous Huxley

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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.

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Lord Orr

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716:30:09

…is totalitarian control and the forced labour of the masses. I would like to quote Some remarks made by Sir John Boyd Orr, now Lord Orr. He made, I forget when, about five or six years ago. He said, there is only a 50-50 chance of getting over this…

732:20:25

…today. This was said, as I say, a few years ago, but I don't think the situation has materially changed since then. And Lord Orr is probably right in saying that there is about a 50-50 chance of getting over this terrible problem of raising the standard…

839:15:53

…have both. I don't think they are going to be able to have both. And that as long as, in the words of Lord Orr, the nations remain insane, it is very unlikely that this 50-50 possibility of solving the overpopulation problem will be realized. Then, of…

888:12:32

…extremely difficult and arduous problem. But unless it is faced, and faced with some degree of success, we shall see, as Lord Orr said, chaos in the world within 50 years. Say a thousand million couples. Well, it's perfectly obviously this is an extremely…

899:24:17

…extremely difficult and arduous problem. But unless it is faced, and faced with some degree of success, we shall see, as Lord Orr said, chaos in the world within 50 years. We shall probably not see it before then. But this becomes increasingly necessary,…

957:59:38

…greatest possible speed in this matter, otherwise the future fate of mankind may be completely disastrous. And we shall then see what Lord Orr calls chaos, and what I would call, in the context of this talk, a serious deterioration of the whole quality of…