Word: huxleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patrick had been a student under great Biologist Thomas Huxley. He was one of those versatile men who are referred to every decade as "the last Renaissance man." When he felt that his scientific writings were detracting from his civic obligations, Geddes switched to town-planning and slum clearance in Edinburgh. Because he believed that Scotland owed a great debt to Hindu philosophy, Geddes taught hygiene and town-planning in India for ten years. He was "one of the fathers of modern geography," and author of such classic studies as The Evolution of Sex, Chapters in Modern Botany. The essential...
...Charles Kingsley, brought them a novel he had written called Westward Ho! "The right article and no mistake!" cried Alexander. He was dead right. Two years later the brothers hit the jackpot again with Thomas Hughes's Tom Brown's Schooldays. Soon they added Thomas Huxley and Matthew Arnold to their list, gained wide prestige with Palgrave's Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics and The Cambridge Shakespeare...
Thus Aldous Huxley introduces The Complete Etchings of Goya (Crown; $3.50), the first inclusive collection in book form. The new Goya reproduces, mostly in their original size, the 268 brutal, sometimes nether-worldly scenes which Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched in the latter years of his life when deafness and ill health had embittered him and he was capping his prodigious career as court painter with a furious moral summation of all he had seen. Samples: a mule, Goya's symbol of pride of lineage, fondling the genealogy of his mulish ancestors; a rapist...
...Aldous Huxley ranks these works with other final achievements of great artists-Beethoven's last quartets, the last poems of Yeats, the later paintings of El Greco. In the Goyas, Huxley sees a vision of "the unplumbed depths of original sin and original stupidity. . . . We are in a world of demons, witches and familiars . . . wholly disquieting inasmuch as it reveals the sort of thing that goes on in the squalid catacombs of the human mind...
Articles are written by experts, who get a scholar's rate of 2? a word. Included with the Britannica essays of Macaulay, Scott and Stevenson are eminent moderns: Henry Ford (Mass Production), Albert Einstein (Space-Time), Julian Sorell Huxley (Courtship of Animals), George Bernard Shaw-who accepted $68.40 for 3,420 words on Socialism...