These may think it a great thing to have everything, as they suppose, their own way–to depend on no one–to have to think of nothing out of sight, to be without the irksomeness of continual acknowledgment, continual prayer, continual reference of what they do to the will of another. Is it not our happiness thus to view the matter? Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that we are our own? It may be thought so by the young and prosperous. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. “We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own.
Christianity without tears - that's what soma is.” You can carry at least half your mortality about in a bottle.
now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. And if ever, by some unlucky chance, anything unpleasant should somehow happen, why, there's always soma to give you a holiday from the facts. And what you ought to do is on the whole so pleasant, so many of the natural impulses are allowed free play, that there really aren't any temptations to resist. There's no such thing as a divided allegiance you're so conditioned that you can't help doing what you ought to do.
The greatest care is taken to prevent you from loving anyone too much. When there are wars, where there are divided allegiances, where there are temptations to be resisted, objects of love to be fought for or defended - there, obviously, nobility and heroism have some sense. Conditions have got to be thoroughly unstable before the occasion can arise. “In a properly organized society like ours, nobody has any opportunities for being noble or heroic.
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