Aldous Huxley, Representative Man Edited by Gerhard Wagner

Home , Ends and Means, Grey Eminence, Heaven and Hell (essay), Little Mexican, Music at Night (book), The Perennial Philosophy

James Hull Aldous Huxley, Representative Man Edited by Gerhard Wagner

LIT TABLE OF CONTENTS

General Editors' Preface i Editor's Note ii Foreword by Robin Hull iii List of Abbreviations vi

INTRODUCTION 1

PART ONE I. THE PREDESTINATION OF EVENTS 6 The Early Poems 10

II. SACRED AND PROFANE LOVE 24

Limbo 26 Crome Yellow 30 Mortal Coils 35 On the Margin 39

III. GONE ABROAD 45 Antic Hay 46 i) Paradise Lost 52 ii) Betrayal 55 iii) "What's He to Hecuba?" 57 iv) The Monster 58 v) Inferno 61 vi) The Last Ride Together 63 Little Mexican 66

IV. THE SEARCH FOR A NEW DIMENSION 78 Those Barren Leaves 78 i) "An Evening at Mrs Aldwinkle's" 78 ii) "Fragments from the Autobiography of Francis Chelifer" 82 iii) "The Loves of the Parallels" 89 iv) "The Journey" 93 Along the Road 97 Two or Three Graces 104 The Spectator: Jesting Pilate 110 i) Religion 112 ii) Art and Other Matters 114 iii) The Later Stages of the Journey 117 Proper Studies 118 i) The Idea of Equality 120 ii) Varieties of Intelligence 122 iii) The Way of the Solitary 124 iv) Personality and Ideals 126

V. LIFE WORSHIP 130 Point Counter Point 130 i) Philip and Elinor Quarles 132 ii) Returning from India 137 iii) Back Home 138 iv) Predestination 141 v) Rampion and Philip 144 vi) Walter Bidlake and the Siren 146 vii) Rachel Quarles and Marjorie Carling 150 viii) Spandrell 153 ix) Rampion 155 x) The "Spiritual Thermopylae" 160 xi) The Riddle of Burlap 163 xii) The Case of John Middleton Murry 166 xiii) Little Phil's Death 169 Do What You Will 170 i) Unity and Diversity 170 ii) The Two Humilities 174 iii) "Pascal" 176 iv) "Holy Face" 184

VI. THE DEFENCE OF REASON 187 Brief Candles 187 i)"Chawdron" 189 ii) "After the Fireworks" 194 Music at Night 199 The World of Light 204 The Cicadas 209 Brave New World 226 Huxley's "Introduction" to His Edition of D.H. Lawrence's Letters 231 Texts and Pretexts 235 i) "Visitations" and "Country Ecstasies" 237 ii) "The Individual" 240 iii) The Artist and His World 241 iv) Man and the Universe 242 v) "Earthly Paradise" 243 vi) Variations on the Theme of Love 246 vii) "Distractions" and Other Matters 249

VII. THE NOBLER HYPOTHESIS 254 Beyond the Mexique Bay 254 i)' The Plumed Serpent' 255 ii) Time and Eternity 257 Return to Sanary 259 Eyeless in Gaza 264 i) Anthony as a Little Boy 264 ii) Nine Years Later 267 iii) The Murder of Innocence 273 iv) What Is Personality? 276 v) More and More Antics 279 vi) The Uncomfortable Fact 283 vii) Deus ex Machina 285 viii) 'The Invisible Lover1 289 ix) Revolution for My Sake 292 x) The Good Cause 296 xi) Theory in Practice 299 xii) Helen and Anthony 303 xiii) Meditation 305 PART TWO VIII.CHANGING CONTINENTS 308 The Olive Tree 308 i) Bovarism 309 ii) "Justifications" 312 iii) "D.H. Lawrence" 316 iv) "The Olive Tree" 317 Ends and Means 318 i) "Beliefs" 320 ii) Pain and Pleasure 323 After Many a Summer 325 i) Part One 325 ii) Part Two 329 iii) Part Three 334 Grey Eminence 335 i) "Inward Abnegation" * 339 ii) "The Religious Background" 340 iii) Theocentric Man 342 iv) Evangelist and Politician 346 v) Justification by Detachment 352

IX. SILENCE IN THE DESERT 355 Time Must Have a Stop 355 i) Prologue 358 ii) The Civilized Human Being 361 iii) The Rejection of Forgiveness 370 iv) Patterns in Space 373 v) Sebastian 377 vi) Chapter Thirty: The "Epilogue" 382 The Perennial Philosophy 384 i) Huxley's Second Anthology 384 ii) Two Anthologies 393 Science, Liberty and Peace 396 Ape and Essence 397 i) "Tallis" 399 ii) "The Script" 401 iii) Mother's Boy 402 iv) "The Fire for Which All Thirst, Now Beams on Me, Consuming the Last Clouds of Cold Mortality" 411

X. THEENTELECHY 412 Themes and Variations 412 i) Maine de Biran 412 ii) "The Philosopher in History" 415 iii) "The Philosopher as Moralist, Metaphysician and Candidate for Salvation" 417 iv) What Biran Did Not Do or Think 420 v) "Variations on El Greco" 427 vi) "Variations on Goya" 431 vii) "The Double Crisis" 432 The Devils ofLoudun 433 i) Urbain Grandier: Priest and Seducer 433 ii) The Desire for Self-Transcendence 438 iii) The Cross That Is Mine 440 iv) The Possessed 444 v) The True and the False 450 vi) Paradise Regained 454

XI. THE VISIONARY 457 The Doors of Perception 457 Heaven and Hell 464 The Genius and the Goddess 466 i) John Rivers's "Amorous Image" 466 ii) April, Twenty-Third, 1922 476 iii) Epilogue 483 Adonis and the Alphabet 484 i) Spiritual Education and Understanding 484 ii) Futurists 490 iii) The 'Great Mother1 492 iv) Mallarme 494 XII. UTOPIA 498 After the Amputation 498 Europe Revisited 513 Literature and Science 516 Island 523 i) Towards the Yoga of Love 524 ii) With My Body I Thee Worship 530 iii) The Moks ha-Medicine 531 iv) Who's Who in Pala 536 "Wise Passiveness" 545 "Oh Herr, Gib Jedem Seinen Eigenen Tod" 551

XIII. CONCLUSIONS: MAKING SENSE OF IT 557 Huxley's Early Aim 557 Ethics 559 The "Nirvana-Addicts" 564 The Personal Conscience 569 Final Remarks 575 i) Intuition 577 ii) The Artist 578

CITED TEXTS 580

INDEX OF NAMES 585

INDEX OF TERMS 592