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BRAVE NEW WORLD-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday, Doran...
...page from Swift, a page from Samuel Butler, a page or two from Jules Verne, Herbert George Wells and Anatole France: put them all together and they spell HUXLEY. Author Huxley points out that his brave new world is strikingly similar to a world simultaneously envisioned by a slightly soberer scientist, Bertrand Russell. Delighted when critics discovered that he was a Thinker, he is still unwilling to give up tomfoolery. In Brave New World he mixes it so well with sober, cynical conclusions that it is hard to tell where one stops and the other begins...
...present time there are four well defined groups of religious thought to which the title 'Liberal' or 'Modern' is attached. The first I represent by the viewpoint of Harry Elmer Barnes, the second by that of John Haynes Holmes, the third by that of Walter Lippmann, Julian Huxley, and Bertrand Russell, and the fourth by the name of Harry Emerson Fosdick." T. L. Harris, adviser in Religion in the University, said last night at a Liberal Club gathering in Lowell House...
...Every man who wants to be religious should read Lippmann's "Preface to Morals," Huxley's "Religion Without Revelation," and Russell's "What I Believe," Dr. Harris said. These writers have no naive belief in Science as the now Mesiah, but own a humanistic point of view in all matters. "I think that these authors have inclined to an over-analytic train of thought...
...kept forgetting. Her children as you meet them first seem i depressingly small, middle-class Middle Western lot, but as you get to know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author Davis tries to tell what ,ldous Huxley calls the Whole Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine...