Neo-Pavlovian Conditioning Huxley’s term for the dystopian form of infant training. The term derives from the classical conditioning system named for the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1931).
viscose a substance used in making rayon thread and fabric.
Model-T the first car produced on Henry Ford’s assembly line.
hypnopaedia sleep-teaching.
asafoetida a bad-smelling gum resin. It was formerly used to treat some illnesses, or, in folk medicine, to repel disease.
viviparous bearing or bringing forth living young, as most mammals and some other animals do.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) British dramatist and critic. Here, one of Huxley’s most famous contemporaries, whom he sarcastically singles out for particular mention as an accepted genius of the dystopia.
