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The patriarch of the family was the zoologist and comparative anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). His grandsons include: Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception; his brother Julian Huxley, an evolutionary biologist and the first director of UNESCO; the Nobel laureate physiologist Andrew Huxley.
Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic, and controversialist who had often been called "Darwin's Bulldog". His brother Julian Huxley and half-brother Andrew Huxley also became outstanding biologists.
Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as " Darwin's Bulldog " for his advocacy of Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution .
The British Huxley family. Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer, author of Brave New World, grandson of Thomas Huxley; Julian Huxley (1887–1975), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley; Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British biologist, brother of Aldous ...
Ends and Means (an Enquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization) is a book of essays written by Aldous Huxley. [1] Published in 1937, the book contains illuminating tracts on war, religion, nationalism and ethics, and was cited as a major influence on Thomas Merton in his autobiography, The Seven Storey ...
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Julia and Leonard Huxley married in 1885 and had four children together: Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975), Noel Trevenen (or Trevelyan) Huxley (1889-1914), the novelist Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894-1963) and Margaret Arnold Huxley (1899-1981). [3] Julia wrote a letter to Aldous as she was dying and he carried this with him for the rest of his life.
The Doors of Perception is an autobiographical book written by Aldous Huxley. Published in 1954, it elaborates on his psychedelic experience under the influence of mescaline in May 1953. Huxley recalls the insights he experienced, ranging from the "purely aesthetic" to "sacramental vision", [ 1 ] and reflects on their philosophical and ...