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This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a center of raging controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it provocatively pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct—and in which many of our contemporary values are obsolete.
"A brisk and thoughtful foray in search of peace of mind, security, and a certain amount of balm for burnt-fingered moderns."
-Charles Poore, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"A slur upon a name, a corruption of an impulse----
such a triumph of mortmain, or the dead hand, has not been envisaged since the days of Sparta." —LIFE
"Alluring in a sinister way, and appalling, too."
—Orville Prescott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"An extremely interesting discourse on the possibilities of social organization." , -the new yorker
DR. B. F. SKINNER, one of the leading exponents of behavioral psychology, is Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the author of...
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WVLDEN TWO
This fictional outline of a modern Utopia has been a center of raging controversy ever since its publication in 1948. Set in the United States, it provocatively pictures a society in which human problems are solved by a scientific technology of human conduct—and in which many of our contemporary values are obsolete.
"A brisk and thoughtful foray in search of peace of mind, security, and a certain amount of balm for burnt-fingered moderns."
-Charles Poore, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"A slur upon a name, a corruption of an impulse----
such a triumph of mortmain, or the dead hand, has not been envisaged since the days of Sparta." —LIFE
"Alluring in a sinister way, and appalling, too."
—Orville Prescott, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"An extremely interesting discourse on the possibilities of social organization." , -the new yorker
DR. B. F. SKINNER, one of the leading exponents of behavioral psychology, is Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and the author of Science and Human Behavior.
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