set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, Feb 5, 1920", "The Times, Nov 25, 1963", "The Times, Feb 4, 1932", 0, "Times Literary Supplement, Feb 19, 1954"]]
set gName = getat(["Huxley"],1)
@[]#CLEVERNESS AND YOUTH#THE HIGHER THE TALK, THE LOWER THE MORALS#A MESSAGE IN THE BOTTLE##A CHANGE OF VISION
Huxley came from a very prominent family. He was the grandson of T H Huxley, the Victorian supporter of Charles Darwin, and the great-nephew of the essayist Matthew Arnold. His elder brother was Sir Julian Huxley, the eminent biologist#Between 1923 and 1930 Huxley lived in Italy. He moved to the USA in the Thirties and became a Hollywood script writer#In the Forties Huxley's eyesight was restored to near normality by a New York doctor called Dr W H Bates. Huxley described the experience in The Art of Seeing (1943)#"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history," said Huxley, "is the most important of all the lessons history has to teach"#Nearly all the titles of Huxley's novels are quotations, mostly from Shakespeare#"The proper study of mankind is books."#"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."#"A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."#"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."#On his deathbed, Huxley asked to be given the drug mescaline.#The rock band The Doors took their name from Huxley's book The Doors of Perception.
