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Aldous Huxley and the Mysticism of Science.
From: Utopian Studies
Date: 19970322
Author:Wagar, W. Warren
June Deery. London: Macmillan Press, and NY: St. Martin's Press, 1996. xi + 231 pp.
GREAT BRITAIN HAS FURNISHED the 20th century with several examples of what might be called the Voltairean model of the species Homo literatus--men and women equally at home in the spheres of fiction and nonfiction, who are rarely ranked in the top tier of the literary world but who have wielded a wider influence in their time than many of their critically acclaimed betters. H.G. Wells was one such, together with his erstwhile mistress Rebecca West. George Orwell and Arthur Koestlet (a naturalized ...
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