First Impression (Brave New World)

First off, my internet is FINALLY fixed, and I am able to make posts/blogs. I only wish it wasn't three days before the first twenty blogs are due. Oh well, better late than never.

"... and, leading his charges to the work tables, actually showed them how this liquor was drawn off from the test-tubes; how it was let out drop by drop onto the specially warmed slides of the microscopes; how the eggs which it contained were inspected for abnormalities, counted and transferred to a porous receptacle;"
-page 5

Upon reading this quote, with no prior knowledge of the plot, I assumed that these eggs were eggs of some type of alien or super-human. I also pictured a scene from Jurassic Park, where the scientists are working with DNA and eggs and creating dinosaurs. The D.H.C. who was taking the students on a tour seemed excessively proud of the work being done in this building. The students were very obedient and seemed almost like robots. On page 6, the author specifies that these creatures being bred are in fact "human beings." Now, I'm interested! What is this book all about?