All 3 Uses of
equilibrium
in
Brave New World
- Hers was the calm ecstasy of achieved consummation, the peace, not of mere vacant satiety and nothingness, but of balanced life, of energies at rest and in equilibrium.
p. 85.8equilibrium = balance
- We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium.
p. 111.1equilibrium = stable balance
- It has given us the stablest equilibrium in history.
p. 227.8 *equilibrium = balance
Definition:
a stable situation in which forces are in balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or emotional balance
or:
a person's sense of physical or emotional balance