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...SCIENCE OF LIFE-H. G. Wells, Julian S. Huxley, G. P. Wells-Doubleday, Doran...
...firm of Wells, Huxley & Wells, taking heart from the success of the senior partner's Outline of History, have produced a comparable outline of Life itself -all the way from a study of the body as a machine to the experiments of spiritualism, the latest theories of consciousness. Says the senior partner of himself: "[He] is the least well equipped scientifically. His share has been mainly literary and editorial and he is responsible for the initiation and organization of the whole scheme. . . . The triplex author claims to be wedded to no creed, associated with no propaganda; he is telling...
...Authors. Herbert George Wells, onetime novelist, is the super-journalist of the World-Idea. Julian Sorell Huxley, brother to Aldous, is one of the foremost English biologists. George Philip Wells, son to Herbert George, is a sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, researches biologically...
...Last week's meeting lacked the vigor of previous conventions. Some speakers interpreted the Pope's denunciatory encyclical as favorable to birth control. "It paves the way for the inevitable fight over what is one of the most important biological findings in history"-Professor Julian Sorell Huxley of London. Other speakers and a formal resolution politely denounced the recent White House Conference on Child Health & Protection (TIME, Dec. 1) for not mentioning birth control at all. Dr. Ira Solomon Wile of Manhattan called the White House Conference "a total, a complete and excellently devised demonstration of an ostrich...
...most compelling rebuttals was not a direct one. It came from Professor Julian Sorell Huxley. Brother of Novelist Aldous Leonard (Point Counterpoint) Huxley, and grandson of the late great Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian Huxley is himself a most distinguished biologist and eloquent member of the scientific vanguard. Speaking to the Philadelphia Forum, he said: "In the long run we must envisage the control of population in the same manner we now control contagious disease. Birth control is by no means perfect, but it is one of the major events in the world's history...