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[kengr]

I'm looking for the poem(?) that the following line is from:

Oh, what brave new world is this, that hath such people in it...?

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[gridlore.livejournal.com]

MIRANDA:

"O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in't!"

[kengr]

So Huxley was being just a bit ironic with his title. :-)

And the folks you complained about, as is too common now-a-days, just went with a phrase that sounded good, with no thought of what associations it might have (and since much of the population won't "catch" that sort of reference...)