Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pity of it all is that the course has or should have considerable interest. Huxley and Darwin are chiefly considered. Their theories are still of present concern. It is true as well that the efforts of Professor Lewis to force his widely dissociated materials into a semblance of form are as attractive as any intellectual katzenjammer can be. But the reading assignments are lengthy, the quizzes frequent, and the standards high enough to exclude the Man-without-a-Purpose. It is this person's conviction that at some past day a misguided confidential reviewer shouted from the house-tops that...
...WHAT YOU WILL-Aldous Huxley-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). In this book of essays Author Huxley writes about philosophers and their asininity; idealists; fashions in love; Baudelaire; how differently Wordsworth would have felt about Nature if he had visited the tropics. He accuses Swift of the modern sin against the Holy Ghost, sentimentality: "If Swift were alive today, he would be the adored, the baroneted, the Order-of-Merited author, not of Gulliver, not of The Tale of a Tub, not of the Directions to Servants, but of A Kiss for Cinderella and Peter Pan." Author Huxley is cold, caustic, reasonable...
Darwinism, says Julian Huxley, is not dead, as "irresponsible persons" think. Evolution-evidence "by now is overwhelming. Although we are very far from under-standing [how] . . . hens do develop from eggs. . . . The idea of Evolution is as important a biological tool as ... the microscope...
Last week, while its author sunned himself in Italy with sophisticated and sympathetic Novelist-Essayist Aldous Leonard Huxley, news came that another Lawrence venture had riled English moralists. In London since mid-June there has been a first exhibition of Mr. Lawrence's adventures into painting. Two titles were typical: A Boccaccio Story, A Flight with An Amazon. Thousands of Londoners have seen them. Critics have snorted: "Repellent and distorted nudes . . . compel most spectators to recoil in horror...
...mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan is your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell do not suggest...