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| A Note on This Edition | ix | |
| Introduction | xi | |
| I. | Painting, Music, Literature | |
| Writers and Readers | 5 | |
| T. H. Huxley as a Literary Man | 29 | |
| Words and Behavior | 48 | |
| Literature and Examinations | 58 | |
| Crebillon the Younger | 62 | |
| D. H. Lawrence | 71 | |
| B. R. Haydon | 91 | |
| II. | History, Politics, Social Criticism | |
| Notes on Propaganda | 105 | |
| Total War and Pacifism | 118 | |
| A Horrible Dilemma | 121 | |
| If We Survive | 124 | |
| The Interpretation of History | 126 | |
| Race | 131 | |
| People's Front | 134 | |
| What Has Happened to the Prudes? | 135 | |
| How to Improve the World | 137 | |
| The Man Without a Job | 145 | |
| Pioneers of Britain's "New Deal" | 150 | |
| Modern Fetishism | 153 | |
| English Snobbery | 157 | |
| New-Fashioned Christmas | 159 | |
| Waterworks and Kings | 161 | |
| Efficacy and Limitations of Large-scale Social Reform | 162 | |
| Social Reform and Violence | 168 | |
| The Planned Society | 172 | |
| Nature of the Modern State | 187 | |
| Centralization and Decentralization | 190 | |
| Decentralization and Self-government | 195 | |
| War | 208 | |
| Individual Work for Reform | 232 | |
| Inequality | 255 | |
| Education | 265 | |
| III. | Science, Philosophy, Religion | |
| Time and the Machine | 299 | |
| Historical Generalizations | 300 | |
| Justifications | 303 | |
| Goals, Roads, and Contemporary Starting-point | 329 | |
| The Nature of Explanation | 335 | |
| Religious Practices | 338 | |
| Beliefs | 355 | |
| Ethics | 388 | |
| IV. | Travel | |
| In a Tunisian Oasis | 409 | |
| The Olive Tree | 419 | |
| Appendix | 429 | |
| Index | 431 |
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John Manchester
reviewed Complete Essays: 1936-1938, Vol. 4 on April 20, 2010
Complete Essays: 1936-1938, Vol. 4
After having read the first three volumes of Huxley's essays, I think there is a degree of diminishing returns. World War II is imminent during the course of the book, and much of Huxley's writing in this volume revolves around ways that human society can organize that would decrease the likelihood of devastating conflicts in the future. However, he is also getting closer to his fascination with a vague and unsatisfactory mysticism. It is, frankly, difficult to concentrate long enough to finish many of these pieces. Huxley's fiction is often fantastic; these essays are a much harder sell.
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