Aldous Huxley
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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.
…Adam and Eve from the garden. And the first record of it is the building of the two altars by Cain and by Abel. And unfortunately, this is also the record of the first religious war. Cain, if you remember, was a husbandman, a vegetarian, like Hitler.…
…this is also the record of the first religious war. Cain, if you remember, was a husbandman, a vegetarian, like Hitler. And Abel was a herdsman. and a meat eater, and they were divided passionately evidently on their different occupations and gave them a…
…which probably goes back to seven or eight thousand years and here there's a very ironical fact we generally feel a great sympathy for Abel and great dislike for Cain but let us never forget that Abel was the man who had sheep and goats And Cain was…
…a very ironical fact we generally feel a great sympathy for Abel and great dislike for Cain but let us never forget that Abel was the man who had sheep and goats And Cain was the agriculturist. I mean, actually, if there was ever a justifiable homicide,…
…And Cain was the agriculturist. I mean, actually, if there was ever a justifiable homicide, it was probably Cain's destruction of Abel. Because the followers of Abel, in fact, have performed incredible feats of destruction all over the world. The goat. which…
…I mean, actually, if there was ever a justifiable homicide, it was probably Cain's destruction of Abel. Because the followers of Abel, in fact, have performed incredible feats of destruction all over the world. The goat. which is closely related to the…