Aldous Huxley was an English...
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Aldous Huxley was an English writer whose works seemed to express a disillusionment with 20th century society. One of his major concerns was how science and technology dehumanize people. His novel, Brave New World, written in 1932, is a satire on how mechanized society is becoming. In an essay, Huxley pleaded for a substitute for alcohol. He said if he were a millionaire he would endow research workers to look for the ideal intoxicant.
"If we could sniff or swallow something that would abolish inferiority, would atone us with our fellows in a glowing exultation of affection, and would make life in all its aspects divinely beautiful and significant; and if this heavenly world-transforming drug were of such a kind that we could wake up the next morning with a clear head and undamaged constitution, then it seems to me that all our problems would be solved, and our earth would be a paradise."
Huxley was a skeptic. If he had taken the New Testament seriously, he would have known that the stimulant, on which he was prepared to spend a million dollars, was discovered a long time ago --and promised to us as a gift from Jesus: the Holy Spirit.
- Kirby
"If we could sniff or swallow something that would abolish inferiority, would atone us with our fellows in a glowing exultation of affection, and would make life in all its aspects divinely beautiful and significant; and if this heavenly world-transforming drug were of such a kind that we could wake up the next morning with a clear head and undamaged constitution, then it seems to me that all our problems would be solved, and our earth would be a paradise."
Huxley was a skeptic. If he had taken the New Testament seriously, he would have known that the stimulant, on which he was prepared to spend a million dollars, was discovered a long time ago --and promised to us as a gift from Jesus: the Holy Spirit.
- Kirby
