In his earlier narrative The Doors of Perception ( 1954 ), Huxley recounted in detail his first experience of mescaline.

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.

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.

Huxley observes, " If the hymn to ( Delphic ) Apollo conveys a historical message, it is above all that there were once Cretan priests at Delphi.

He once worked as a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, during which time he sold a vacuum cleaner to the writer Aldous Huxley at his home in Llano, pointing to it and declaring, " Well I assure you sir, this thing sucks.

Oscar convinces the Grouch Policeman and all the Grouches of Grouchland that, even though Grouches hate cooperation, just for once, they have to take a stand against Huxley from stealing any more of their stuff, and taking light to this problem, the Grouch Policeman releases the Sesame Street residents and aid them to go to Huxley's house to fight for their trash.

Llano was once the home of English writer Aldous Huxley.

He was a second-cousin once removed of Thomas Huxley.

In 1974 a part of the museum that was once known as the Huxley Building was renamed the Henry Cole Building ; today it forms the Henry Cole Wing of the V & A.

These would be a test of his theory: Huxley had once asked " Who has ever dreamed of finding an utilitarian purpose in the forms and colours of flowers?

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 ".

As a Humanist, Dr. Huxley interests himself in the possibilities of human development, and one thing we can say about this suggestion, which comes from a leading zoologist, is that, so far as he is concerned, the scientific outlook places no rigid limitation upon the idea of future human evolution.

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.

The first debates about the nature of human evolution arose between Thomas Huxley and Richard Owen.

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.

One of Huxley ’ s friends who met him on the day said that despite writing about wearing flannel trousers, he was actually wearing blue jeans.

Huxley was slow to accept some of Darwin's ideas, such as gradualism, and was undecided about natural selection, but despite this he was wholehearted in his public support of Darwin.

Aldous Huxley ’ s best-selling novel Brave New World, about a future society based on eugenics, was published in 1932.

* The Crows of Pearblossom authored by Aldous Huxley: A children's story using crows ( birds ) to tell a story about Huxley's admiration of a particular pharmacist and his wife ( not surnamed Crow ) who worked and lived in Palmdale, not Pearblossom.

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

Nonetheless, unlike Huxley, whose agnosticism was a militant creed directed at ' the unpardonable sin of faith ' ( in Adrian Desmond's phrase ), Spencer insisted that he was not concerned to undermine religion in the name of science, but to bring about a reconciliation of the two.

The same subject was revisited about a century later in the book-length essay, The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley, published in 1952.

Referring to what Huxley had said two days before, about after all its not signifying to him whether he was descended from a Gorilla or not, the Bp.

Huxley portrays various aspects of his ideology about subjects such as God, sex, history, literature, intellect and death.

Huxley wrote, " How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn, when Aladdin rubbed his lamp.

There is evidence from letters that Charles Darwin was aware that Wickham had these tortoises, as he sent a letter to Huxley in 1860 informing him that he should speak with Wickham in Paris about the last of the tortoises from the 1835 expedition because he had them.

He supported Thomas Henry Huxley in an important controversy with Richard Owen about the human brain, and eventually succeeded Owen as Director of the Natural History Museum.

Flower's first contact with Huxley came about from his early friendship with George Busk, Surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital of HMS Dreadnought ( a land base near Portsmouth ).

In an interview, former member Andy Huxley was questioned about his reasons for giving up drugs he said " Because it's irresponsible, and you can't get anything done, and it stifles your creativity, and there's no benefit in it really, apart from its like going on vacation constantly, I can't write any songs when I'm on drugs, I need to be sober ".

Through the pages of his book, Huxley talks about the business of survival, and the information that is the most useful for survival.

* The English author Aldous Huxley includes a long passage ( chapter 20 ) about the word " carminative " in his novel Crome Yellow.

You say nothing about yourself, so I trust you are well and hearty, and all your belongings flourishing .– Ever yours faithfully, T. H. Huxley.

Huxley had not yet understood natural selection despite Darwin's hints about pedigree and genealogical trees.

" Lyell questioned Huxley about the Neanderthal fossil found near Düsseldorf and described by Hermann Schaaffhausen in 1858 which Huxley examined at the College of Surgeons in London.

The most prominent member of this club was the anatomist Thomas Henry Huxley.

In 1864, he became one of the founding members ( along with Thomas Henry Huxley and others ) of the elite X Club, a dining club composed of nine gentlemen to promote the theories of natural selection and academic liberalism.

Huxley had made arrangements for a dining club of close friends as select supporters of the evolutionary " new reformation " in naturalism, united by a " devotion to science, pure and free, untrammelled by religious dogmas ", and it held its first meeting that same day.

Hooker's address to the Norwich British Association was a great success for the X Club ( a dining club formed in November 1864 to support the evolutionary " new reformation " in naturalism, including Huxley, Hooker, John Tyndall, Busk, Spencer, and Spottiswoode ).

The X Club ( a dining club formed in November 1864 to support the evolutionary " new reformation " in naturalism, including Huxley, Hooker, John Tyndall, Busk, Spencer, and Spottiswoode ) raised a £ 2, 000 collection for him, primed by Darwin with £ 300.

Later, Darwin mentioned the Mivart argument and Hooker rallied the X Club ( a dining club formed in November 1864 to support the evolutionary " new reformation " in naturalism, including Huxley, Hooker, John Tyndall, Busk, Spencer, and Spottiswoode ).

The members of the club were George Busk, Edward Frankland, Thomas Archer Hirst, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Thomas Henry Huxley, John Lubbock, Herbert Spencer, William Spottiswoode, and John Tyndall, united by a " devotion to science, pure and free, untrammelled by religious dogmas ".

Huxley always insisted that sociability was the only purpose of the club, but others in the club, most notably Hirst, claimed that the founding members had other intentions.

On the night of the first meeting, Huxley jokingly proposed that the club be named " Blastodermic Club ", in reference to blastoderm, a layer of cells in the ovum of birds that acts as the center of development for the entire bird.

Some historians, such as Ruth Barton, feel that Huxley wanted the newly formed club to act as a guide to the development of science.

Huxley, however, always stated that the simple purpose of the club was to bring friends together who may have drifted apart otherwise.

According to Huxley, the fact that all the members of the club gained distinction within science was merely coincidental.