Another fine and, at times, moving post. May I ask which particular essay by Huxley the quotation is taken from. Also, I can't recall if I've mentioned it before but I'm reminded by this post that I think you'd appreciate McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary. The thesis of the book is echoed in your closing quotation from DHL about our using only a fragment of ourselves. And McG (albeit more in subsequent work than in that book) reaches conclusions about religion similar to those of Huxley. I think there's much in McG that you'd appreciate. Congratulations, finally, on the smart new website.
Thank you. I found the Huxley piece in my copy of his collected essays, but it is perhaps most readily available here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148618/page/n13/mode/2up. The essay is titled "One and Many" from the collection "Do What you Will". This is my favorite Huxley essay and the entire collection is worth reading. In my view Huxley's essays from the late 20s and early 30s are the best, but of course I would have that opinion, since those are the essays where he is most deeply under the influence of DHL.
I really do need to find the time to read more of McGilchrist, seeing as how many people from widely divergent standpoints are all recommending him to me.
Another fine and, at times, moving post. May I ask which particular essay by Huxley the quotation is taken from. Also, I can't recall if I've mentioned it before but I'm reminded by this post that I think you'd appreciate McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary. The thesis of the book is echoed in your closing quotation from DHL about our using only a fragment of ourselves. And McG (albeit more in subsequent work than in that book) reaches conclusions about religion similar to those of Huxley. I think there's much in McG that you'd appreciate. Congratulations, finally, on the smart new website.
Thank you. I found the Huxley piece in my copy of his collected essays, but it is perhaps most readily available here: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148618/page/n13/mode/2up. The essay is titled "One and Many" from the collection "Do What you Will". This is my favorite Huxley essay and the entire collection is worth reading. In my view Huxley's essays from the late 20s and early 30s are the best, but of course I would have that opinion, since those are the essays where he is most deeply under the influence of DHL.
I really do need to find the time to read more of McGilchrist, seeing as how many people from widely divergent standpoints are all recommending him to me.