Continued from Part 2.

Continuing the biographical notes on Aldous Huxley, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley, he “graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with a degree in English literature.”

Huxley’s family has had a major impact on our society and culture.

Aldous Huxley himself

was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature nine times, and was elected Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature in 1962.

His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Henry_Huxley:

Thomas Henry Huxley (4 May 1825 – 29 June 1895) was an English biologist and anthropologist who specialized in comparative anatomy. He has become known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his advocacy of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Another key figure is his brother, Julian Huxley. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley:

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley FRS (22 June 1887 – 14 February 1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth-century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.

Continuing with the article on Aldous Huxley regarding his education:

Huxley’s education began in his father’s well-equipped botanical laboratory, after which he enrolled at Hillside School near Godalming. He was taught there by his own mother for several years until she became terminally ill. After Hillside he went on to Eton College. …

…In October 1913, Huxley entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He volunteered for the British Army in January 1916, for the Great War; however, he was rejected on health grounds, being half-blind in one eye. His eyesight later partly recovered.

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The article addresses his early employment:

He taught French for a year at Eton College, where Eric Blair (who was to take the pen name George Orwell) and Steven Runciman were among his pupils. …

The beginning of his writing career:

His first published novels were social satires, Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925), and Point Counter Point (1928). Brave New World (1932) was his fifth novel and first dystopian work. In the 1920s, he was also a contributor to Vanity Fair and British Vogue magazines.

I touched on the Bloomsbury Group before:

During the First World War, Huxley spent much of his time at Garsington Manor near Oxford, home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, working as a farm labourer. While at the Manor, he met several Bloomsbury Group figures, including Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead, and Clive Bell.

I’ve described his caricature of the Bloomsbury Group members in my commentary on Crome Yellow, especially Bertrand Russell, who is a key interest for those of us concerned with the Ruling Class’s agenda.

I think it’s notable also that he ran into Alfred North Whitehead. Wikipedia describes him:

Alfred North Whitehead OM FRS FBA (15 February 1861 – 30 December 1947) was an English mathematician and philosopher. He created the philosophical school known as process philosophy, which has been applied in a wide variety of disciplines, including ecology, theology, education, physics, biology, economics, and psychology.

In his early career Whitehead wrote primarily on mathematics, logic, and physics. He wrote the three-volume Principia Mathematica (1910–1913), with his former student Bertrand Russell. …

Beginning in the late 1910s and early 1920s, Whitehead gradually turned his attention from mathematics to philosophy of science, and finally to metaphysics. He developed a comprehensive metaphysical system which radically departed from most of Western philosophy. Whitehead argued that reality consists of processes rather than material objects, and that processes are best defined by their relations with other processes, thus rejecting the theory that reality is fundamentally constructed by bits of matter that exist independently of one another. Whitehead’s philosophical works – particularly Process and Reality – are regarded as the foundational texts of process philosophy. …

Prior to his excellent books on 9/11, David Ray Griffin followed in the footsteps of Alfred North Whitehead according to Wikipedia:

David Ray Griffin (August 8, 1939 – November 2022) was an American professor of philosophy of religion and theology and a 9/11 conspiracy theorist. Along with John B. Cobb, Jr., he founded the Center for Process Studies in 1973, a research center of Claremont School of Theology that promotes process thought….

As a student in Claremont, Griffin was initially interested in Eastern religions, particularly Vedanta [like Huxley by the way]. However, he started to become a process theologian while attending John B. Cobb’s seminar on Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy. According to Griffin, process theology, as presented by Cobb, “provided a way between the old supernaturalism, according to which God miraculously interrupted the normal causal processes now and then, and a view according to which God is something like a cosmic hydraulic jack, exerting the same pressure always and everywhere (which described rather aptly the position to which I had come)” (Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology)…..

I am not trying to associate him with the concerns of Huxley or Russell. I just find this field of process philosophy and process theology to be intriguing.

Continued: Part 4