"'All men are physico-chemically equal,' said Henry sententiously. 'Besides, even Epsilons perform indispensable services'"(Huxely 74).
Through this textual evidence it is advocating that life is meaningful even for Epsilons who are at the bottom of the social casts. For Henry to say this means that he acknowledges that they are people and they do something very important to society. The Epsilons do have a purpose and their cast can't be replaced by other casts because every cast has their own duties to benefit the whole society. Although, by producing their meaning in this way is in a sense degrading for who they are as people. These Epsilons are only able to work this way because of how things are. Since everything is decided by cast peoples' meaning cannot be risen or lowered no matter what. Thus, lowering the meaningfulness of life for every single person in every cast. In conclusion, the peoples' lives may have an indispensable purpose in their society giving them meaning, but their meaningfulness is brought up to nothing because society decides what you meaning is making the meaning of life a simple cast system.
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