(source:http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world.html )
This is an amazing letter, and, even when it is quite long, I think this is one of the better analysis we can read about both authors mindset...
Indeed, thank you very much Nadia for introducing me to it!
It will take me time (maybe lifetime(s)) to digest completely, and let me note in passing that I'm a bit familiar with philosophy of Marquis d. S from a couple of his own books (boring) and from Victor Yerofeev's articles (less boring, but alas no English or Spanish translation found). Nevertheless I am posting the link in case it will be useful for you or for other readers:
http://samlib.ru/v/victor_v_e/markiz_de_sad.shtmlI was fond of anthropology and sociobiology/ethology when I was young and I remember one non-mainstream author writing about the suggestive abilities of Neanderthal, coming with a disadvantage of vulnerability to hypnosis, and how Homo Sapiens developed resistance (which also decreased Sapiens' ability to induce hypnosis) under this evolutionary pressure.
In your paragraph how both visions came equally true I saw young H.G.Wells' (who was a friend of them both) prediction about Morlocks and Eloi. Indeed, the distant descendants of Orwell became Morlocks in Wells' vision, and those of Huxley generated Time Traveller's beloved Weena.