You can read the complete text of Huxley's 'Brave New World' by clicking HERE. The first chapter describes the cloning rooms.

HERE is a curious attack on Huxley - a defence of 'paradise engineering', suggesting that this really is the way of the future.

HERE is an account of Professor Antinori's hopes...

There perhaps even a way of rescuing species that have already become extinct...

There is a way of letting infertile couples have children...

There is a way of providing endless supplies of human organs for transplant...

There is a way of letting people have just the child they want, instead of leaving it to chance...

There is a way you can make another you - to live the life you would always have wanted, with the parents you would have wished for yourself...

There is a way of creating another Stephen Hawking, in case he dies before he has found the secret of the universe...

There is a way of creating a great army of brilliant scientists and artists - a way of multiplying a thousand-fold the creative genius of mankind...

There is a way of making a better world...

It is called HUMAN CLONING.

Aldous Huxley, in his classic, 'Brave New World', envisaged a designed society, with the right number of cloned individuals in every level, all happy to do what they had to do. Cloned lift operators would operate lifts (epsilon minus semimorons, if I remember correctly); a cloned elite would enjoy the sophisticated life; a few intellectuals would know the truth.

But Huxley painted a picture not of a utopia, but of a DYSTOPIA - not of a 'good place' but of a 'bad place'. A sinister place, where God's designs had been replaced by man's childish hopes for happiness. It took a 'savage', escaped from the savage reservation, to expose the inhumanity of the new humanity.

As I write, Professor Severino Antinori is planning to begin work on human cloning in Britain. He had hoped to begin this November but there have been setbacks. There are many legal battles being fought, with some vehemently opposing his work and others heralding it as the prelude to a human science of the future.

The decisions are being made right now. In a few years' time, you could have similar decisions foisted upon you. What is your opinion?

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