"A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY."
This sentence immediately establishes a world vastly different from the one Huxley's readers would have known in 1932. The existence of a "Hatchery and Conditioning Centre" in Central London, coupled with the World State's motto, points to a society where human life is controlled and engineered, a stark contrast to the natural processes of birth and upbringing familiar to the readers.