If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles…. They have to be caught. And only the people who’ve got them can pass on the contagion.
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Bruno Rontini, in Time Must Have a Stop, ch. 10 (1944).
Bruno Rontini is the novel’s mystic and also its moral spokesperson.