Word: huxleyism
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...fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton, e.g. Aldous Huxley in Antic Hay, takes a gentler and-inferentially-more engaging approach. Writers such as Kingsley (Lucky Jim) Amis similarly express the " 'Leave Us Alone' philosophy of young people" in largely humorous terms...
...annoying as it might be. Durrell's spirits are so buoyant that they earn the reader's indulgence. His posturings are taken as overdrafts on respect well repaid by later books, and so is his blatant mimicry of such authors as Lawrence, Eliot, Aldous Huxley and Henry Miller (to whom Durrell sent the only typescript of the book with the coy instruction to read it and throw it in the Seine...
Thank you for your surprisingly unbiased account of the debate between Biologist Huxley and Theologian Mascall. That Huxley won the argument was not so much owing to his superior debating ability as it was to the fundamentally untenable position of his opponent, who, like many other bachelors of science, does not really understand the scientific method...
...empirical -if it were, we would in many cases have to admit its absurdity. Christianity is not a deductive system, it is the Word of grace spoken into the heart of man in his guilt and tragedy. It grasps the whole being of man, not just his logical faculties. Huxley's comparison of religion and science is like a comparison of music and cost accounting. TIM SWANSON...
...turn in my preaching parchment if Huxley and his biological associates can make one further advancement. Let them eradicate this thing we theological boys call sin. If so, I'll return to the scientific campus or take up a janitorial job in a biological...