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...trips, as far away as the Colorado Rockies. He belongs to the American Legion, takes part in "civic activities" like a good Californian. He studies Chinese philosophy. He even knows movie people. Relations between the Mount Wilson astronomers and Hollywood have never been close,* but Hubble has some friends (Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen, Anita Loos) among the movie colony's intellectual...
...reported a startling discovery: the cure of an alcoholic was effected by his "surrender to a higher power." For centuries Christians have been witnessing that the surrender "to a higher power" is the only successful approach to all personal problems. And for centuries before Christianity this principle was proclaimed. Aldous Huxley in The Perennial Philosophy says that self-surrender "is inculcated ... in the . . . writings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism and most of the other major and minor religions of the world." In recent years in the popular publications, A.A. and many other laymen and churchmen have been advocating this approach...
Writing about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk...
Peacock's short, genially satirical novels established him as one of England's minor novelists. There had been nothing like them before, but there was to be something like them later; Aldous Huxley, Norman Douglas, H. H. ("Saki") Munro and Evelyn Waugh would acknowledge their debt...
Utopians as grave as Sir Thomas More, satirists as great as Jonathan Swift dealt with imaginary men and inventions. Samuel Butler (Erewhon), William Dean Howells (A Traveler from Altruria), H. G. Wells (The Empire of the Ants) and Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) also mixed science and moonshine for purposes of their...