Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.

Following his education at Balliol, Huxley was financially indebted to his father and had to earn a living.

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

As a result of his letters and, no doubt, personal conversations, Huxley and Haeckel were convinced that, at the time he wrote Principles, he believed new species had arisen by natural methods.

Many of the proponents of Darwinism at that time, including Huxley, had reservations about the significance of natural selection, and Darwin himself gave credence to what was later called Lamarckism.

More specifically, Huxley had first heard of peyote use in ceremonies of the Native American Church in New Mexico soon after coming to the USA in 1937.

In the epilogue to his novel The Devils of Loudon published earlier that year, Huxley had written that drugs were “ toxic short cuts to self-transcendence ” For the Canadian writer George Woodcock, Huxley had changed his opinion because mescaline was not addictive and appeared to be without unpleasant physical or mental side-effects, further he had found that hypnosis, autohypnosis and meditation had apparently failed to produce the results he wanted.

Reflecting on his stated motivations, Woodcock wrote that Huxley had realised the ways to enlightenment were many, and prayer and meditation were techniques among others.

Huxley had invited his friend, the writer Gerald Heard to participate in the experiment ; although Heard was too busy this time he did join him for a session in November of that year.

Osmond arrived at Huxley ’ s house in West Hollywood on May 3, and recorded his impressions of the famous author as a tolerant and kind man, although he had expected otherwise.

The psychiatrist had misgivings about giving the drug to Huxley, and wrote that " I did not relish the possibility, however remote, of being the man who drove Aldous Huxley mad ," but instead found him an ideal subject.

Osmond later said he had a photo of the day that showed Huxley wearing flannels.

Huxley had used Blake's metaphor in The Doors of Perception while discussing the paintings of Vermeer and the Nain brothers, and previously in The Perennial Philosophy, once in relation to the use of mortification as a means to remove persistent spiritual myopia and secondly to refer to the absence of separation in spiritual vision.

In the early 1950s, Huxley had suffered a debilitating attack of the eye condition Iritis.

" For Steven J. Novak, The Doors Of Perception ( and Heaven and Hell ) redefined taking mescaline ( and LSD, although Huxley had not taken it until after he had written both books ) as a mystical experience with possible psychotherapeutic benefits, where physicians had previously thought of the drug in terms of mimicking a psychotic episode, known as psychotomimetic.

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.

Later Huxley responded to Zaehner in an article published in 1961: " For most of those to whom the experiences have been vouchsafed, their value is self-evident.

Huxley had been planning to leave Oxford on the previous day, but, after an encounter with Robert Chambers, the author of Vestiges, he changed his mind and decided to join the debate.

In 1845, under Wharton Jones ' guidance, Huxley published his first scientific paper demonstrating the existence of a hitherto unrecognized layer in the inner sheath of hairs, a layer that has been known since as Huxley's layer.

In fact, Huxley took the place of his old tutor Geoffrey Smith, who had been killed in the battle of the Somme on the Western Front.

In the 1950s Huxley played a role in bringing to the English-speaking public the work of the French Jesuit-palaeontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who he believed had been unfairly treated by the Catholic and Jesuit hierarchy.

In a letter to Nature, written to refute an article saying that the Draize test had not changed much since the 1940s, Professor Sir Andrew Huxley wrote: " A substance expected from its chemical nature to be seriously painful must not be tested in this way ; the test is permissible only if the substance has already been shown not to cause pain when applied to skin, and in vitro pre-screening tests are recommended, such as a test on an isolated and perfused eye.

Huxley argues that those who have, “ modified their merely human mode of being ,” and have thus been able to comprehend “ more than merely human kind and amount of knowledge ” have also achieved this enlightened state.

The experiment was repeated by the Englishman Julian Huxley, who was unaware the experiment had already been done, using ground thyroid hormones.

* In the Aldous Huxley novel Brave New World, a " freemartin " ( mentioned in chapters 1, 3, 11 and 17 ) is a woman who has been deliberately made sterile by exposure to hormones during fetal development ; in the book, government policy requires freemartins to form 70 % of the female population.

Ever since 1857 when Richard Owen presented ( to the Linnean Society ) his view that man was marked off from all other mammals by possessing features of the brain peculiar to the genus Homo, Huxley had been on his trail.

Huxley explains to Spartan that the Constitution had been amended to allow Schwarzenegger to be elected despite his foreign birth.

The term " light of evolution "— or sub specie evolutionis — had been used earlier by biologist Julian Huxley.

Flower had long been interested in natural history, and now he decided to move his career in that direction, probably under the influence of Thomas Henry Huxley, who was also a comparative anatomist, and Fullerian Professor at the Royal Institution at the time.

He has been responsible for performances reading Pat Barker's Regeneration, The Ghost Road and The Eye in the Door, Suspicion by Robert McCrum, Maurice by E. M. Forster, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Sebastian Faulks ' Birdsong and Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles.

A distinctive piece of work was effected by him in 1871 in supplementing the evidence adduced by Huxley in refutation of the skull-vertebrae theory: the theory of the origin of the skull from expanded vertebrae, which, formulated independently by Goethe and Oken, had been championed by Owen.

In reality Huxley, analogous to the way the name of the related genus Iguanodon (" iguana-tooth ") had been formed, intended to name the animal after an extant herbivorous lizard, choosing for this role Hypsilophus and combining its name with Greek ὀδών, odon, " tooth ".

Tens of thousands of screenplays have been written by L. A. city residents, and the movie business has attracted many authors, including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Tennessee Williams, Evelyn Waugh, and William Faulkner.

In 1878, James gave a series of lectures at Johns Hopkins University entitled " The Senses and the Brain and their Relation to Thought " in which he argued, contra Thomas Henry Huxley, that consciousness is not epiphenomenal, but must have an evolutionary function, or it would not have been naturally selected in humans.

Hooker had been " converted ", Lyell was " absolutely gloating " and Huxley wrote " with such tremendous praise ", advising that he was sharpening his " beak and claws " to disembowel " the curs who will bark and yelp ".

As Huxley said in his Advertisement of the Reader, most of the content of his book had been presented to the public before: " The greater part of the following essays has already been published in the form of Oral Discourses, addressed to widely different audiences, during the past three years.

In a letter to Thomas Henry Huxley in 1854 ( five years before his own book on evolution was published but twelve years after its ideas had first been sketched out in an unpublished essay ), Darwin expressed sympathy for the ( still anonymous ) author of Vestiges in the face of a savage review by Huxley: " I must think that such a book, if it does no other good, spreads the taste for Natural Science.

Aldous Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist, and he was latterly interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism.

Merton was first exposed to and became interested in Eastern religions when he read Aldous Huxley ’ s Ends and Means in 1937, the year before his conversion to Catholicism.

Blumenbach's work was used by many biologists and comparative anatomists in the nineteenth century who were interested in the origin of races: Wells, Lawrence, Prichard, Huxley and William Flower are good examples of his influence on human biology.

Island explores many of the themes and ideas that interested Huxley in the post-World War II decades, and were the subject of many of his nonfiction books of essays, including Brave New World Revisited, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy.

Other writers contemporaneous to Dunne who expressed enthusiasm for his ideas included Aldous Huxley, who was also interested in the expansion of human consciousness to experience time, and Adolfo Bioy Casares, who mentioned this book in the introduction to his novel The Dream of Heroes ( 1954 ).

Huxley had been interested in Fraser Darling's studies on animal behaviour since the early 1940s, and the two had corresponded while Fraser Darling was living on Tanera Mor.