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...William J. Baker Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 Thomas Huxley in Tennessee William J. Baker I As converts to whom the light had been revealed, Darwin s followers in the nineteenth century were energetic propagandists. In the class­ room, on the podium, and through the printed...

...James Olney Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Most Extraordinary : Sybille Bedford and Aldous Huxley James Olney But for such as these a portrait is not an identificative paper but rather the curve of an emotion. James Joyce Ah life, G. M. Hopkins once exclaimed, in a brief...

...H. T. Webster Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 ALDOUS HUXLEY: NOTES ON A MORAL EVOLUTION H. T. WEBSTER PROBABLY NO LITERARY generation seemed more exciting than that which had its dawn at the close of the first World War. The early works of these men had a freshness...

...Frank Baldanza Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 POINT COUNTER POINT: ALDOUS HUXLEY ON THE HUMAN FUGUE Frank Faldanza >HE BRITISH intelligentsia of the twenties and thirties took JL their music seriously; Virginia Woolf records in her diary fu­ neral services, like...

...Charles I. Glicksberg Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 HUXLEY THE EXPERIMENTAL NOVELIST Charles I. Glicksberg HUXLEY is generally bracketed with Gerald Heard as the lead­ er of a movement that seeks by the regeneration of individual consciousness to cure our social ills...

...Joseph Bentley Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major Novels . By Bowering Peter . New York : Oxford University Press , 1969 . Pp. 242 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1969 by Duke University Press 1969 564 The South Atlantic Quarterly matically, that pattern is Dos Passos continuing...

...Julian Huxley Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 THE CONTROL OF ANIMAL PESTS IN WARTIME JULIAN HUXLEY AN S STRUGGLE for existence falls under three heads: his struggle with the forces of the inorganic environment, his struggle with other species of organisms, and his struggle...

...Julian Huxley Copyright © 1942 by Duke University Press 1942 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XLI OCTOBER, 1942 Number 4 THE WAR: TWO JOBS, NOT ONE JULIAN HUXLEY ONCE, YEARS AGO, when I was on a lecture tour across the United States, I found myself in Texas when Ma Ferguson was campaigning...

...Julian Huxley Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 BIOLOGY AND ETHICS JULIAN HUXLEY THE LIFE SCIENCES, under which the sciences of man are, of course, to be included as well as biology in the strict sense, have made four major contributions to the question of ethics. Through them...

... Huxley have often appealed to the precursor of the medieval, this essay takes a different turn. By looking at the co‐substantial way in which reality is displaced, suspended, and refigured in a different register, the author proposes to show how literary works like the medieval “dream‐vision,” the “trip...

... to the publication of his dystopian vision of the future, Huxley is traveling from Malaya on his way to the United States as part of a journey around the world: Among the genuine books which I discovered imbedded in a ship s library was Henry Ford s My Life and Work. I had never read it; I began, and was fascinated...

..., The Castle T^ie landscape after the battle. . . . When it finally arrives, the long-awaited has a ten­ dency to disappoint. Already printed in our journals are Zamiatin s We, Huxley s Brave New World, Nabokov s Invitation to a Be­ heading, Kafka s The Castle, Orwell s Animal Farm, as well as his 1984, which...

... of those who sought out these non‐ordinary states. [email protected] Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Humphry Osmond Aldous Huxley Albert Hofmann LSD mescaline war on drugs For millions of years, there have been hundreds of plants, fungi, and even some animals...

... time to time, Colby paid his respects to Paul Elmer More, Thomas Henry Huxley, and G. K. Chesterton. Early in the present century, when More was being shamefully neglected, foully set upon, or deliberately misinterpreted, Colby was saying some of the shrewdest and fairest things about him that have...

... about [it One wishes that Brantley had deliberately chosen to withhold his book from the machine of publication until he had had time to rethink and rewrite it into the more valuable work he seems capable of pro­ ducing. THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WALTER B. RIDEOUT Aldous Huxley: A Study of the Major...

... war in a short while, but it demands, unfortunately, a better sort of peo­ ple than the world appears to contain. These remarks take us to a book which is perhaps the most notable example of Thoreau s influence today. Aldous Huxley is a shrewd and earnest student of society. Scarcely given to puerile...

... to have spent more time with people like Catherine Carswell, instead of trying to convert the literati, scribes like Huxley, who had his own widely publicized ideas to protect, or a pharisee like Murry, whose deity seems to have been his own ego. On the other hand, reprinting this memorial revives Mrs...

... questions on the other. Since the classical debate of Wilberforce and Huxley, these issues have clearly been joined. At their meeting, Bishop Wilberforce attacked Darwin partly over his interpreta­ tion of data but finally on grounds of belief, saying that he could not believe in any case that he...

..., Darwin, and Huxley. It is they who set the scene for the poets and artists. It is they who were, in particular, the champions of Darwin and who made evolution a weapon with which to overthrow reli­ gious orthodoxy. And it is the peculiar quality of these men which tempered the rationalism of the age...

...Eugen Weber Copyright © 1959 by Duke University Press 1959 THE ANTI-UTOPIA OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Eugen Weber THERE IS A PASSAGE in the works of Berdyaev which Aldous Huxley uses to introduce his novel, Brave New World a pas­ sage in which the philosopher points out that Utopias appear far...