Books: Huxleyism

ENDS AND MEANS — Aldous Huxley — Harper ($3.50).

While some of his post-War English contemporaries were turning from disillusionment to Communism, the Roman Catholic Church and suicide, Aldous Huxley, who had fallen under the spell of D. H. Lawrence, was groping his way toward mysticism. In Those Barren Leaves (1925). he announced that it is not the fools of this world who turn mystics. In Point Counter Point (1928), which took a thinly-disguised D. H. Lawrence for its hero. Huxley attacked scientific Utopias, embraced a Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a...

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