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POINT COUNTER POINT-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday Doran...
Intricate and difficult is counterpoint-"the art of adding melodies, according to fixed rules, as accompaniment to a given melody." If Author Huxley's "given melody" is perhaps the conflict between passion and reason, it is outnoised by his myriad irrelevant themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills...
Julian Sorell Huxley, biologist-writer grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin's protagonist), eldest son of Leonard Huxley (editor, Cornhill Magazine), brother of Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer of lightly ironical books) last week was trying to organize a grand telepathic powwow. Beginning this month and continuing for 16 weeks he wants people who believe that they can propel their ideas and wishes towards others to try doing so, and report results to him.* Particularly does he want the blind to experiment "to determine whether a special sensitiveness compensates for the loss of sight...
Down House, in Kent, where Charles Darwin wrote his Origin of Species, has been acquired as a public memorial. The Hon. John Collier, who painted portraits of Darwin and his publicist Huxley, has made duplicates of the pictures to be hung in Down House...
...species at Downe, the eight years after that perusing the habits and character of barnacles. After this, he was ready. For four years, 1855-59, he wrote The Origin of Species. Until its publication he had had no allies in his opinions. Afterward he found a few (notably Thomas Huxley, Asa Gray, Alfred Russell Wallace, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Lyell), but most of the civilized world thought the book was a fairy tale and the author a misguided fool...