This lecture from January 26, 1959 is very well know for the paragraph

“And it seems to me perfectly on the cards that there will be within the next generation or so a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and of producing a kind of—producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak. Producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them but will actually rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel—by the fact of propaganda, brainwashing, and brainwashing enhanced, possibly, by pharmacological methods. And this seems to me to be precisely The Final Revolution.”

Huxley is insisting, throughout the lecture, on a dichotomy between scientific and technological development on the one site and human nature on the other, between liberty and spontaneity on the one site and technique on the other, at the same time linking the “enormously rapid increase” of population to the necessity of a “technicization” of government. He is calling on the scientific community of The University of California to unite with other disciplines in a series of conferences which should result in “some kind of educational policy, some kind of governmental policy, some kind of legal policy”.