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Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, New York City; $7.50). Says Aldous Huxley in the foreword...
...evaluates contemporary religious revivalism from a Spenglerian deterministic point of view. His main point, that thinkers should try to understand the war in its relation to their ideals, to "assimilate their own tragedy," rather than fleeing to comforting but false "eternal verities," is well taken. In the case of Huxley and T. S. Eliot, however, he fails to make it clear why the Christian mystical experience is not a valid truth-criterion for anyone lucky enough to have...
...Builder has given various parts of his handiwork such symbolic names as Vale of Memory, Sunrise Slope, Slumberland, Resthaven, Whispering Pines, Babyland. The result is sensational and Forest Lawn (disguised as "Beverly Pantheon") has achieved the minor immortality of an acid portrait by Aldous Huxley in After Many a Summer Dies the Swan...
...insects, as Naturalist Julian Huxley explains, microscopic air tubes carry oxygen "directly to and from the tissues instead of using dual mechanisms of lungs and blood stream. Laws of gaseous diffusion are such that [this system] is extremely efficient for very small animals, but becomes rapidly less efficient with increase of size, until it ceases to be of use at a bulk below that of a house mouse. [So] no insect has become moderately large by vertebrate standards or moderately intelligent." If the termite had a proper trachea, man might never have appeared on earth...
...Western Hemisphere." They said he was "one of the most fantastic figures in the world." They said he was "the richest man on the face of the earth." "What a book he'll make some day," a newspaperman sighed and someone else added: "Yes, preferably by Aldous Huxley...