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Domenichino and Huxley's Antic Hay.(Aldous Huxley)(Critical essay)

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From: Notes on Contemporary Literature
Date: 20060501
Author:Meyers, Jeffrey

On the opening page of Aldous Huxley's Antic Hay (1923), the teacher Theodore Gumbril speculates during school prayers "about the existence and nature of God." He can accept God in his heart as a physical and emotional force, but not in his head through logic and reason: "God as a sense of warmth about the heart, God as exultation, God as tears in the eyes, God as a rush of power or thought-that was all right. But God as truth, God as 2+2=4-that wasn't so clearly all right. Was there any chance of their being the same? Were there bridges to join the two worlds?" (Aldous Huxley, ...

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