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Magna Charta. Currently in England a group of scientists including Sir Arthur Smith Woodward and Julian Huxley are engaged in knocking the flimsy props from under Nazi ideas of race purity and race superiority. A quarter-century ago Franz Boas was attacking the same sort of ideas. At that time the view was popular that different races had their characteristic mentalities which determined their culture. Boas had piled up enough data to convince him that such was not the case. His Mind of Primitive Man was published in 1911. When he was elected president of the American Association...
...been accused of slandering Abraham Lincoln, ruining the English language, taking money from the onetime Kaiser, spying for the Soviets. In 1928 Mencken published a collection of these attacks (Menckeniana, a Schimpflexicon). Born in Baltimore of German grandparentage. Mencken began to write "seriously" at 12, took T. H. Huxley (see below I for his god at 16. An amiable skeptic, short, fat. boyish to look at, he is fond of practical jokes. Some suspect his philological delvings are merely a form of involved japery. but fellow-philologists take him seriously, call him the authority on U. S. English...
...HUXLEY'S DIARY OF THE VOYAGE or H. M. S. RATTLESNAKE-edited by Julian Huxley-Doitbleday, Doran...
Today Thomas Henry Huxley may be remembered chiefly as Aldous' grandfather, but when he was his grandson's age he had a resounding fame...
...ALDOUS HUXLEY-Alexander Henderson-Harper ($2.50). A critical biography of a writer who, Author Henderson thinks, has not been taken as seriously as his work warrants...