Another author Merton began reading at this time was Aldous Huxley, whose book Ends and Means introduced Merton to mysticism.

Modern commentators on the case, such as the author Aldous Huxley, have argued that the accusations began after Grandier refused to become the spiritual director of the convent, unaware that the Mother Superior, Sister Jeanne of the Angels, had become obsessed with him, having seen him from afar and heard of his sexual exploits.

Rather than merely lecturing, many leaders began to experiment with what Huxley called the non-verbal humanities: the education of the body, the senses, and the emotions.

He began but did not finish a doctoral thesis on Aldous Huxley ’ s Doors of Perception.

Cohen first took the drug on October 12, 1955 and expected to have an unpleasant trip, but was surprised when he experienced “ no confused, disoriented delirium .” He reported that the “ problems and strivings, the worries and frustrations of everyday life vanished ; in their place was a majestic, sunlit, heavenly inner quietude .” Cohen immediately began his own experiments with LSD with the help of Aldous Huxley whom he had met in 1955.

Though later associated with Mendelian genetics, mutationism began in the 1890s ( prior to the rediscovery of Mendel ’ s laws ) with the studies of Hugo De Vries and William Bateson on naturally occurring discontinuous variations ; their thoughts concerning the role of discontinuity in evolution drew on earlier ideas of William Keith Brooks, Francis Galton, and Thomas Henry Huxley.

Beginning in the mid-1850s, the network began to form around Huxley and Hooker, and these six men began helping one another, both as friends and professionals.

CEM Joad wrote in The New Statesman and Society that although the book was a mine of learning and the commentary was profound, readers would be surprised to find that Huxley had adopted a series of peculiar beliefs such as the curative power of relics and spiritual presences incarnated in sacramental objects.

Turrill provided Huxley with botanical information.

Huxley, who soon put them to good use, pioneering the greatly expanded use of laboratory work in biology teaching.

Working in a laboratory just months before the outbreak of World War I, Huxley overheard fellow academics comment on a passing aircraft " it will not be long before those planes are flying over England ".

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

Thomas Henry Huxley was born in Ealing, then moved to a village in Middlesex.

* In March 1938, Anita Loos contacted Aldous Huxley, then recently moved to Hollywood, saying she would put him in touch with MGM for a writing contract.

In September 1916 Huxley returned to England from Texas to assist in the war effort, working in the British Army Intelligence Corps, first in Sussex, and then in northern Italy.

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

Bug then gives Elmo his blanket back and Huxley tries to change his mind about his selfishness.

In 1947 – 1948, with the then director general of the United Nations ' scientific and education organisation UNESCO, Julian Huxley, he was involved in forming the International Union for the Protection of Nature ( IUPN ) ( now International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN )).

The campus was then split in half by Huxley Avenue, providing an " Upper " campus ( due to the uphill nature of the landscape on Smith Hill ) and " Lower " campus ( the new, flatter area of the College ).

The Spectator, which gradually became a prosperous property, was an outlet for his views, particularly on literary, religious and philosophical subjects, in opposition to the agnostic and rationalistic opinions then current in intellectual circles, as popularized by T. H. Huxley.

In 1961 he created the World Wide Fund for Nature ( then the World Wildlife Fund ) with Victor Stolan, Sir Julian Huxley, Sir Peter Scott and Max Nicholson.

Spartan suggests that they find a way to compromise between order and personal freedom, then kisses Huxley and departs with her.

Heard is also responsible for introducing the then unknown Huston Smith to Huxley.

Essentially, Huxley defines these " antipodes " of the mind as mental states that one may reach when one's brain is disabled ( from a biological point of view ) and can then be conscious of certain " regions of the mind " that one would otherwise never be able to pay attention to, due to the lack of biological / utilitarian usefulness.

Huxley then explains:

He follows Huxley in his account of man's embryonic development, and then considers the evidence of vestigial organs, which he ( and Huxley ) called rudiments ( p11 ).

The publication of Huxley physiography presented a new form of geography that analysed and classified cause and effect at the micro-level and then applied these to the macro-scale ( due to the view that the micro was part of the macro and thus an understanding of all the micro-scales was need to understand the macro level ).

Only fourteen sold, but by then Huxley had already written a cutting review of Mivart's book and article.

Darwin had to admit that Krause had revised his essay, and spent a week in February 1880 drafting responses, then was persuaded to ignore the dispute, writing to Huxley " I feel like a man condemned to be hung who has just got a reprieve ".

* Queen River runs through Queenstown, then to join with the King River to the west of Mount Huxley

In the book they avoided saying that they believed the story but were careful to report it as though with an open mind, even when they recounted how a hair from the supposed mongoose was sent to Julian Huxley who then sent it to naturalist F. Martin Duncan who identified it as a dog hair.

Aldous Huxley had transformative lessons with Alexander, and continued doing so with other teachers after moving to the USA.

In 1869 Huxley coined the term ' agnostic ' to describe his own views on theology, a term whose use has continued to the present day ( see Thomas Henry Huxley and agnosticism ).

All this time Huxley continued his program of reading, which more than made up for his lack of formal schooling.

At the age of thirteen Huxley attended Eton College as a King's Scholar, and continued to develop scientific interests ; his grandfather had influenced the school to build science laboratories much earlier.

For some time Huxley retained his room at King's College, and continued as Honorary Lecturer in the Zoology Department.

Henrietta Huxley brought their three infants to Down in March 1861 where Emma helped to console her, while Huxley continued with his working-men's lectures at the Royal School of Mines, writing that " My working men stick with me wonderfully, the house fuller than ever, By next Friday evening they will all be convinced that they are monkeys.

Huxley continued with his lectures to the working men, and a member of the audience took notes and published six fourpenny pamphlets which were brought together into a book which Darwin thought " capitally written ...

The term clade was introduced in 1958 by Julian Huxley after having been coined by Lucien Cuénot in 1940, cladistic by Cain and Harrison in 1960, and cladist ( for an adherent of Hennig's school ) by Mayr in 1965.

Huxley, a boy who left school at ten, became one of the most knowledgeable men in Britain.

Now 16, Huxley entered Sydenham College ( behind University College Hospital ), a cut-price anatomy school whose founder Marshall Hall discovered the reflex arc.

Huxley and some other British scientists of the time, he had no formal education in science, and left school at 12.

* Prior's Field School is an independent private girls boarding school founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Julia Huxley.

It was erected between 1909 and 1913 specifically to house the school, which was previously resident in the Huxley Building on Exhibition Road, now the Henry Cole Wing of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Through a series of misunderstandings, Baravelli and Pinky are recruited to play on Huxley's football team ; this requires them to enroll as students at Huxley, which creates chaos throughout the school.

As a zoologist Lankester was a comparative anatomist of the Huxley school, working mostly on invertebrates.

The school was envisioned by Annie Besant, Guido Ferrando, Aldous Huxley, J. Krishnamurti, and Rosalind Rajagopal.

At the age of seven, Macfarren was sent to Dr. Nicholas's school in Ealing, where his father was dancing-master ; the school numbered among its alumni John Henry, Cardinal Newman and Thomas Henry Huxley.

Current and recent Wallabies Stirling Mortlock, Benn Robinson, Dean Mumm, Nick Phipps and Julian Huxley are former students of the school.