"Adults intellectually and during working hours," he went on. "Infants where feeling and desire are concerned." (93)
These two sentences fundamentally summarize how this society is run. The society controls everyone from their conditioning with Malthusian drills, hypnaedic verses, soma, and many more methods all the way down to their genetic make-up. They do not think. Instead, their thoughts are filled with the hypnaedic phrases such as "Never put off till to-morrow the fun you can have today," which, as Bernard points out, had "Two hundred repetitions, twice a week from fourteen to sixteen and a half."
Through the society's control of people's genetic make-up and conditioning, they love their class, their work, and ultimately they are "happy" with their lives. However, Bernard compares people to infants when people are not doing anything than their predestined work. At all other times, they do not feel, because "the community reels," according to Lenina and the hypnaedic phrases. They do not have passion. Instead, they do not actually think about things and just act on their impulses that have been conditioned into them...just like infants.
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