Word: huxley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unusually low price. Along with noted poets (Eliot, Auden, Hardy, Yeats, etc.) are examples from the lesser known (Roy Campbell, James Agee, etc.). The prose writings are also various: Churchill on Dunkirk, stories by Henry James, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, sayings by Logan Pearsall Smith, essays by Aldous Huxley and E. M. Forster, letters by John Jay Chapman, etc. Author Maugham steps in from time to time with offhand comments...
Among present-day Bates disciples are Mrs. Bates and Optometrist Harold Peppard of Manhattan. Novelist Aldous Huxley was so much helped by the Bates method that he wrote a book about it (The Art of Seeing...
...Science, Huxley points out, began with the simpler phenomena; its first triumphs were in mechanics and simple! physics; chemistry took another century. "The central fact of biology, evolution was not established until modern science had been in existence for over two hundred years. ... In the same way the science of mind developed later than biological science. What Newton was for mechanics and physics, and Darwin for biology, Freud was for psychology-the originator of a new and illuminating way of thinking...
...World Stuff. Huxley flatly rejects the philosophic dualism which divides truth into two kinds, scientific and revealed. He declares that the world, living and lifeless, mental and physical, is composed of one stuff. "In reproduction there is no moment at which life enters . . . the offspring is merely a detached portion of the parental living substance...
Dualists have classically insisted that .a dead man differs from a live one by the loss of a soul. But, says Huxley, a dead body is not the same as a living body, the chemical conditions are different: "If you substitute oil for acid in the battery of your automobile, no current will pass." The electric eel can light a lamp; less visible, but none the less real are the currents which accompany all vital activity. In the same manner, "all the activities of the world stuff are accompanied by mental as well as material happenings...