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November 22, 1963: Aldous Huxley Dies

 

 

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one’s life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than ‘Try to be a little kinder.’

Aldous Huxley

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Michael Paterson-Seymour
Michael Paterson-Seymour
Friday, November 22, AD 2013 8:38am

A remarkable family. His brother, Sir Julian, was a celebrated naturalist and his half-brother, Sir Andrew won the Nobel Prize for medicine and was Master of Trinity, Cambridge and, like his grandfather T H Huxley, President of the Royal Society.

Mary De Voe
Friday, November 22, AD 2013 8:17pm

As an avowed atheist, Aldous Huxley had nothing to offer to fend off subliminal suggestion (brainwashing); no hope in the free will of man to hold his own in the face of totalitarianism. Huxley was at a loss to defend the destiny of the person as inviolable. He preached communism “in small groups” of people as opposed to the individual citizen, a majority of one. The whole of the interview was hollow as a man without God can give. It is said that the saints in heaven will not remember the souls in hell because the souls in hell have chosen to “not be.” Yet, “Try to be a little kinder” is the Love thy neighbor as thyself half of the Great Commandment. Yet, Huxley had little respect for his own advice.
In today’s world many people have rejected God and embraced atheism because they are afraid of losing their free will and freedom, yet, God is the giver of freedom and the creator of free will. Atheism has swindled the atheist out of his freedom and free will, and made an embarrassment out of the atheist.

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