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Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley: The Visionary
Who Saw Too Much
In the pantheon of 20th-century thinkers, few cast a shadow as long and
strange as Aldous Huxley. Born into a family of intellectual titans, his
grandfather was Darwin’s bulldog, Thomas Henry Huxley. Aldous seemed
destined to probe the boundaries of human understanding. But unlike
his scientific forebears, Huxley’s lens was literary, philosophical, and
often psychedelic.
Born in 1894 in the leafy town of Godalming, Surrey, Huxley’s early
life was marked by brilliance and tragedy. A devastating eye illness
nearly blinded him in his teens, derailing his scientific ambitions and
steering him toward literature. After studying English at Oxford, he
emerged as a sharp satirist of post-WWI England, skewering the
pretensions of the intelligentsia in novels like Crome Yellow (1921)
and Antic Hay (1923).
