![]() The Savage makes a reference, through a quote from Shakespeare's King Lear, challenging Mond that God manages, punishes, and rewards. The Savage thinks about how he was kept away from communal activities at the Reservation, and now in the World State he is prevented from being alone. They discuss solitude - the Savage says that he feels God when he is alone, but Mond reminds him that people are taught to hate solitude, and life is arranged so that they almost never have it. The Savage says that it is Mond's fault, and Mond replies it is the fault of a civilization that has chosen science and machinery and universal happiness. The Savage asks him if he is an atheist, and Mond says that he believes that there is a God that manifests himself in different ways to different men now God manifests himself as an absence. There are no losses for which religion must compensate, and youthful desires are unfailing. ![]() He explains that philosophers did not dream of the modern world, where old age does not exist youth and prosperity, which now people have right up until the end, have replaced God. The author believes that in his own experience, his religious sentiment is a result of the calming of his passions and a turn inward, away from worldly sensations and toward God. From the second book, he reads a passage about the idea that weakness and fear of old age makes men turn to religion. He reads a passage from the first book, which proclaims that we are not our own but the property of God, and that independence is an unnatural state, not made for men. Mond reads from two books, one by Cardinal Newman and the other by Maine de Biran, a philosopher. ![]() 231 The Savage asks him why, if he knows about God, he does not tell people about him, and Mond replies that it is the same reason why he does not tell people about Othello: because it is old. He tells the Savage that he has "God in the safe and Ford on the shelves." Chapter 17, pg. Mond pulls out a copy of the Bible and other religious books and shows the Savage. They have discussed art and science with Helmholtz and Bernard, and now move on to religion. ![]() The Savage tells Mond that as World Controller, he has sacrificed art and science for happiness. A deep intellectual conversation takes place between Mustapha Mond and The Savage (John).
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