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...creator. Will Rogers had called him the "last of the savage head-hunters." He had met and modeled almost all the significant figures of modern times. Foch, Balfour, Lloyd George, Benes, Litvinoff, John D. Rockefeller the elder, Andrew Mellon, Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Gandhi and Aldous Huxley were only a few of his trophies. He was convinced that Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest of them...
...were immensely entertaining and often clairvoyant in their view of the future. His realistic novels are pretty certain to live. His novels of sex propaganda (Ann Veronica, et al.), in their time, were notable liberating forces. His Science of Life (written with his son G. P. Wells and Julian Huxley) may come to be recognized as an achievement still more remarkable than his world-famous Outline of History...
...like the societies that cling to them. Professor Northrop wants to find a worldwide philosophical formula that will synthesize the best of East and West. He does not believe the answer lies in the West going off the deep end into the mysticism of the East (as Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood and other Anglo-American intellectuals seem to have done). Nor does he believe that the East should drop its own culture for Westernisms...
...Hooton, and Huxley, and Hall...
...Novelist Huxley's book, reflecting a growing, uneasy sense of the inadequacy of a purely rationalistic approach to God, included excerpts from many unfamiliar European mystics and religious thinkers (Francis of Sales, St. Teresa, Eckhart, Boehme), even more unfamiliar Asiatics (Jalaluddin Rumi, Visvanatha, Chuang...