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From: National Review
Date: 20010205
Author:Potemra, Michael

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was a born essayist, in no merely metaphorical sense. His paternal grandfather was T. H. Huxley, one of the most prominent public intellectuals of the 19th century, the apostle of evolution who came to be known as "Darwin's Bulldog." On his mother's side, his great-grandfather was the education reformer Thomas Arnold (of Rugby-school fame), and his great-uncle was Matthew Arnold, one of the greatest of Victorian poets and literary critics and an important intellectual leader of the nascent liberal Anglicanism.

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