"That's because we don't allow them to be like that. We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balances at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusion of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated. So, of course, they don't look like that. Partly," he added, "because most of them die long before they reach this old creature's age. Youth almost unimpaired till sixty, and them crack! the end" (Huxley 110-111).
Anchor Statement: Scientific and technological advancements benefit society.
In Chapter 7, Bernard and Lenina go to the Savage Reservation. Lenina is astonished when she sees people of old age that look so different than the people in the world she lives in. Bernard explains to her, that in their world people are not made to live past a certain age and that they have scientific advancements that allow them to look and stay youthful. In the Savage Reservation they do not use these scientific advancements, instead they age naturally. I qualify the statement that scientific and technological advancements benefit society because although in Brave New World these scientific advancements allow them to maintain their age in beauty which can be seen as a positive note, their unnatural aging can also be negative for them mentally and physically. Many people would argue that if they were given an opportunity to stop aging they would, but their halt in aging could be dreadful for their long-term health. Especially since people in the Brave New World do not live after 60.
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