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  Julian Huxley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Huxley grew up at the family home in (A county in southeastern England on the Thames) Surrey, where he showed an early intrest in nature was given lessons by his grandfather.
While Huxley saw eugenics as important for removing undesirable variants from the human gene pool as a whole, he beleived that races were equal, and was an outspoken critic of the eugenic extremism that arose in the (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s.
Huxley was a critic of the use of (A contest of speed) race as a scientific concept, and in response to the rise of (A political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)) fascism in Europe was asked to write We Europeans.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ju/julian_huxley.htm   (1086 words)

  
 Aldous Huxley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Huxley understandably excelled in the areas he took up professionally, for on his father's side were a number of noted men of science, while on his mother's were people of literary accomplishment.
Huxley's main interest was not in just anything vague, mysterious, or subjective, but in what is sometimes termed "higher mysticism"; he liked the term "perennial philosophy" that he used as the title of his noted book on the topic.
Huxley's wife, Maria, died of breast cancer in 1955, and in 1956 he remarried, to Laura Archera, who was herself an author and who wrote a biography of Aldous.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldous_Huxley   (1554 words)

  
 Aldous Huxley - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Huxley's psychedelic drug experiences are described in the essays The Doors of Perception (the title deriving from some lines in a poem by William Blake) and Heaven and Hell.
Huxley's wife, Maria, died of breast cancer in 1955, and in 1956 he re-married, to Laura Archera (Huxley), who was herself an author and who wrote a biography of Aldous.
Huxley's views on the proper roles of science and technology (as he portrayed these, say, in Island) are akin to some other noted English and American thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Lewis Mumford and Huxley's friend Gerald Heard (and, in some ways, Buckminster Fuller and E.F. Schumacher).
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /aldous_huxley.htm   (1457 words)

  
 Julian Huxley Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Huxley was born on June 22, 1887, at the London house of his aunt, the novelist Mary Ward, while his father was attending the jubilee celebrations of Queen Victoria.
While Huxley saw eugenics as important for removing undesirable variants from the human gene pool as a whole, he believed that races were equal, and was an outspoken critic of the eugenic extremism that arose in the 1930s.
Huxley was a critic of the use of race as a scientific concept, and in response to the rise of fascism in Europe was asked to write We Europeans.
www.alienartifacts.com /encyclopedia/Julian_Huxley   (1650 words)

  
 Thomas Huxley Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Huxley was born in Ealing in west London, being the seventh of eight children of George Huxley, a teacher of mathematics in Ealing.
Huxley united, with the Medusae, the Hydroid and Sertularian polyps, to form a class to which he subsequently gave the name of Hydrozoa.
Huxley was the founder of a very distinguished family of British academics, including his grandsons Aldous Huxley (the writer), Sir Julian Huxley (the first Director General of UNESCO and founder of the World Wildlife Fund), and Sir Andrew Huxley (the physiologist and Nobel laureate).
www.folkartmuseum.com /encyclopedia/Thomas_Huxley   (1388 words)

  
 Aldous Huxley - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aldous Leonard Huxley (July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963) was a British writer.
Following his education in literature at Balliol, Huxley was financially indebted to his father and had to earn a living.
His wife, Maria, died of breast cancer in 1955, and in 1956 he re-married, to Laura Archera (Huxley).
open-encyclopedia.com /Aldous_Huxley   (977 words)

  
 biology - Andrew Huxley
Hodgkin and Huxley shared the prize that year with John Carew Eccles, who was cited for research on synapses.
Hodgkin and Huxley's findings led the pair to hypothesize ion channels, which were confirmed only decades later.
Huxley was a son of the writer and editor Leonard Huxley by his second wife Rosalind Bruce, and hence half-brother of Aldous Huxley and grandson of the biologist T.
www.biologydaily.com /biology/Andrew_Huxley   (226 words)

  
 Thomas Henry Huxley [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Thomas Henry Huxley, the distinguished zoologist and advocate of Darwinism, madeseveral incursions into philosophy.
From his youth he had studied its problems unsystematically; he had a way of going straight to the point in any discussion; and, judged by a literary standard, he was a great master of expository and argumentative prose.
Huxley is credited with the invention of the term 'agnosticism' to describe his philosophical position: it expresses his attitude towards certain traditional questions without giving any clear delimitation of the frontiers of the knowable.
www.iep.utm.edu /h/huxley.htm   (407 words)

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