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Aldous Huxley

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Lectures, interviews, and conversations with Aldous Huxley — novelist, philosopher, and author of Brave New World.

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Jefferson

9 mentions across 8 talks in Aldous Huxley

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59:56:38

…been prepared to follow out the logic of technology whereas in the West we still remember John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Jefferson and so on we still remember vaguely the precepts of Christianity and we are a little reluctant to embark upon technology…

388:41:06

…electorate is small and where he is dealing with a group which he can manage and understand. And if one can, as Jefferson, after all, suggested, break up the units into smaller and smaller units and so get a real... self-governing democracy. Well, that…

447:09:52

…sort of basic tenet of the Russian system. Whereas in the West, as he said, we still remember Christianity, we still remember Jefferson. And when we have to make a choice, we always do so with considerable hesitation. I mean, that... However, it is always…

878:32:10

…look back over... history and to see what the early advocates of universal education expected of universal education. I mean, take Jefferson and James Mill, for example, at the beginning of the 19th century. They were both convinced that if everybody could…

889:35:46

…the means of communication would be devoted entirely to the dissemination of distractions. I mean, this never entered the mind... I mean, Jefferson, after all, was a great man of genius, and James Mill was no fool, but it just didn't enter their heads…

59:56:38

…been prepared to follow out the logic of technology whereas in the West we still remember John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Jefferson and so on we still remember vaguely the precepts of Christianity and we are a little reluctant to embark upon technology…

387:02:12

…electorate is small and where he is dealing with a group which he can manage and understand. And if one can, as Jefferson, after all, suggested, break up the units into smaller and smaller groups, uh units and so get a real self-governing democracy well…

388:41:39

…electorate is small and where he is dealing with a group which he can manage and understand. And if one can, as Jefferson, after all, suggested, break up the units into smaller and smaller units and so get a real self-governing democracy. Well, that was…

815:48:36

…30 years ago, 25 years ago, and that it should have taken all this time for a process which was already apparent to Jefferson who talked about soil erosion and soil exhaustion, that it should have taken another 150 years for the remedies to be generally…