…primitive people in many ways no stupider than we are, although they are much more ignorant than we are. Are you satisfied, Mr. Huxley, that an escape valve is necessary for man's aggression? I'm quite sure it is, because after a look, merely preaching to…

…We really have made the best of our human condition. Of late, I know you have made much mention of nonverbal factors, Mr. Huxley, particularly in education. As I reread one of your essays the other evening, and thought about it, it occurred to me how…

This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley…

…years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us. We'll find out why…

…Aldous Huxley, is a man of letters as disturbing as he is distinguished. Born in England, now a resident of California, Mr. Huxley has written some of the most electric novels and social criticism of this century. He's just finished a series of essays…

…of essays called Enemies of Freedom, in which he outlines and defines some of the threats to our freedom in the United States. And Mr. Huxley, right off the bat, let me ask you this. As you see it, who and what are the enemies of freedom here in the…

…are not like opium or like cocaine, which do change the state of mind, but leave terrible results physiologically and morally. Mr. Huxley, in your new essays, you state that these various enemies of freedom are pushing us toward a real-life brave new…

…the integrity and reassert the value of the human individual? You put the question. Now here's your chance to answer it, Mr. Huxley. Well, this is obviously, first of all, it's a question of education. I think it's terribly important to insist on…

…all, you begin to see it now if you travel through the South, this decentralized... textile industry, which is springing up there. Mr. Huxley, let me ask you this, quite seriously. Is freedom necessary? As far as I'm concerned, it is, yes. Why? Is it…

…initiative, creation, all these things which we value, and I think value properly, are impossible without a large measure of freedom. Well, Mr. Huxley, take a look again at the country which is in the stance of our opponent any way it would seem to be…

…the best of the creative activities of the people on top, plus those of the people on the bottom, so much the better. Mr. Huxley, I surely thank you for spending this half hour with us, and I wish you Godspeed, sir. Thank you. Aldous Huxley finds…

…told you so. The crucial question, as he sees it now, is whether the so-called free world is shortly going to give Mr. Huxley the further dubious satisfaction of saying the same thing about us. Stay tuned for a preview of next week's interview. Until…

…remarks and a short excerpt from the discussion that followed. The chairman of the center, Robert M. Hutchins, introduces Mr. Huxley. We open our symposium this morning. The definition of symposium in the dictionary is a drinking party with conversation.…

…on democratic institutions by presenting the man who first saw it all. In Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, Mr. Huxley has indicated the problems that we are now going to discuss. All of my generation were brought up on Chrome Yellow…

…his style and penetration. but has moved on even more interesting subjects than those with which he dealt in the carefree 20s. Mr. Huxley is a constant attendant, I'm happy to say, at our discussions in Santa Barbara, and now that we're beginning the most…

…in Santa Barbara, and now that we're beginning the most important one we ever had, I'm glad to have him here to introduce Mr. Huxley. May I remain sitting, because I have to read with a glass? If you can sit loud, you can remain sitting. All right,…

…doubt that we have done something, in President Wilson's prematurely optimistic words, to make the world safe for democracy. Mr. Huxley sees three problems, population, arms race, nationalism, and believes that we should shift our attention from politics to…

…war and to divert our attention from those arguments which are certain to result in war. I'd like to begin by asking Mr. Huxley for an item of clarification. As he sounded his original attack on politics, he made it very comprehensive indeed. He said,…

…Ross wants to make that on active paragraph of his, he may do so. Otherwise, I think we'd better give all the time to Mr. Huxley. We're very glad to have you with us. And we appreciate your taking this time. Well, may I suggest that this will at…

…that this is not going to swallow us up. I would think that you'd have to have both emphases at the same time. Mr. Huxley, do you feel that the threat of atomic annihilation will induce a sort of tragic note into American thinking about the moon of…

…I get it, damn well better. I mean, there is no other... We have to accept it. Well, may I ask this question, Mr. Huxley? Isn't that just the danger that you were talking about before? If everything remained on a level of private experience, Aren't we…

…essential difference. One is what may be called a negative utopia and the other is a positive utopia. What's the title, Mr. Huxley? The title is simply Island. It is essentially an island. It's a contemporary fantasy. It's an island within our world, which…

…society in the light of both the contributions of East and West. When did you first get interested in Mayanna Buddhism, Mr. Huxley? been, I suppose, for 20 or 30 years increasingly interested in it. I mean, the whole story of Buddhism in relation…

…that led, as you'll hear, to a general discussion of changed attitudes towards sex. If I may turn back to your earlier work, Mr. Huxley, I mean, Chrome Yellow and Antique Hay were two very hilarious novels. And then after them, it seems to me that your…

…problems. We have to carefully to think out what is going to happen and then to have the desire to do it. Mr. Huxley, thank you very much indeed. Walter Allen has been introducing recordings of the conversations he and John Morgan had with Aldous Huxley.…

…primitive people in many ways no stupider than we are, although they are much more ignorant than we are. Are you satisfied, Mr. Huxley, that an escape valve is necessary for man's aggression? I'm quite sure it is, because after a look, merely preaching to…

…We really have made the best of our human condition. Of late, I know you have made much mention of nonverbal factors, Mr. Huxley, particularly in education. As I reread one of your essays the other evening, and thought about it, it occurred to me how…

…of California in Berkeley, where we would hope he is reaping the Critical and Material Award rewards of his latest novel, Island. Mr. Huxley, in your very famous novel of 30 years ago, Brave New World, you drew us a picture of what I suppose was…

…he had a remarkable gift of writing in general on philosophical and scientific subjects, so that it was in the family. Mr. Huxley, you said that you turned upon your own inner resources. During those years of late adolescence and in your early twenties,…

…friends and a number of English friends living there too. So that I was never really alone then. Let me turn, if I may, Mr. Huxley, to one of your most famous novels, Brave New World. The world which you depicted for us in that novel was a world that…

…time of creating a society which will help them to do this, a good society. This, as I say, seems to me absolutely essential. Mr. Huxley, your book Island was, in a sense, an antidote to Brave New World. You showed us what could be. Why did you give…

…a description from The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, who is at MIT this term as Cary Visiting Professor of Humanities. Mr. Huxley, going into a garden and seeing a chair under an arbor is a very ordinary kind of experience for most people. Why…

…so that we do have the possibility of living both here and now, and in this abstract world of words. Thank you very much, Mr. Huxley. We hope that you'll be with us next week at the same time. ...that they could be made of anything else but blue…

…take away as you please with that. So we can try to do that within ten days or so. I'm supposed to ask you too, Mr. Huxley, if you'd be at all interested in coming out to Claremont to speak to either our Harvey Mudd undergraduates or to some of the…

a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley says that his fictional…

…years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us. We'll find out why…

…Aldous Huxley, is a man of letters as disturbing as he is distinguished. Born in England, now a resident of California, Mr. Huxley has written some of the most electric novels and social criticism of this century. He's just finished a series of essays…

…of essays called Enemies of Freedom, in which he outlines and defines some of the threats to our freedom in the United States. And Mr. Huxley, right off the bat, let me ask you this, as you see it, who and what are the enemies of freedom here in the…

…not like opium or like coca, cocaine, which do change the state of mind, but leave terrible results physiologically and morally. Mr. Huxley, In your new essays, you state that these various enemies of freedom are pushing us toward a real-life brave new…

…the integrity and reassert the value of the human individual? You put the question. Now here's your chance to answer it, Mr. Huxley. Well, this is obviously, first of all, it's a question of education. I think it's terribly important to insist on…

…all, you begin to see it now if you travel through the South, this decentralized... textile industry, which is springing up there. Mr. Huxley, let me ask you this, quite seriously. Is freedom necessary? As far as I'm concerned, it is, yes. Is it necessary…

…initiative, creation, all these things which we value, and I think value properly, are impossible without a large measure of freedom. Well, Mr. Huxley, take a look again at the country which is in the stance of our opponent any way it would seem to be…

…best of all the creative activities of the people on top, plus those of the people on the bottom, so much the better. Mr. Huxley, I surely thank you for spending this half hour with us, and I wish you Godspeed, sir. Thank you. Aldous Huxley finds…

…told you so. The crucial question, as he sees it now, is whether the so-called free world is shortly going to give Mr. Huxley the further dubious satisfaction of saying the same thing about us. Stay tuned for a preview of next week's interview. Until…

…a description from The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley, who is at MIT this term as Carnegie Visiting Professor of Humanities. Mr. Huxley, going into a garden and seeing a chair under an arbor is a very ordinary kind of experience for most people.…

…so that we do have the possibility of living both here and now and in this abstract world of words. Thank you very much, Mr. Huxley. We hope that you'll be with us next week at the same time. that could be made of anything else but blue fire. For…

This is Aldous Huxley, a man haunted by a vision of hell on earth. A searing social critic, Mr. Huxley, 27 years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley…

…years ago wrote Brave New World, a novel that predicted that someday the entire world would live under a frightful dictatorship. Today, Mr. Huxley says that his fictional world of horror is probably just around the corner for all of us. We'll find out why…

…Aldous Huxley, is a man of letters as disturbing as he is distinguished. Born in England, now a resident of California, Mr. Huxley has written some of the most electric novels and social criticism of this century. He's just finished a series of essays…

…of essays called Enemies of Freedom, in which he outlines and defines some of the threats to our freedom in the United States. And Mr. Huxley, right off the bat, let me ask you this. As you see it, who and what are the enemies of freedom here in the…

…are not like opium or like cocaine, which do change the state of mind, but leave terrible results physiologically and morally. Mr. Huxley, in your new essays, you state that these various enemies of freedom are pushing us toward a real-life brave new…

…the integrity and reassert the value of the human individual? You put the question. Now here's your chance to answer it, Mr. Huxley. Well, this is obviously, first of all, it's a question of education. I think it's terribly important to insist on…

…all, you begin to see it now if you travel through the South, this decentralized... textile industry, which is springing up there. Mr. Huxley, let me ask you this, quite seriously. Is freedom necessary? As far as I'm concerned, it is, yes. Why? Is it…

…initiative, creation, all these things which we value, and I think value properly, are impossible without a large measure of freedom. Well, Mr. Huxley, take a look again at the country which is in the stance of our opponent any way it would seem to be…

…the best of the creative activities of the people on top, plus those of the people on the bottom, so much the better. Mr. Huxley, I surely thank you for spending this half hour with us, and I wish you Godspeed, sir. Thank you. Aldous Huxley finds…

…told you so. The crucial question, as he sees it now, is whether the so-called free world is shortly going to give Mr. Huxley the further dubious satisfaction of saying the same thing about us. Stay tuned for a preview of next week's interview. Until…

…people are unfamiliar with Brave New World, Mr. Huxley's frightening picture of the world of tomorrow. Since the late 1930s, Mr. Huxley has lived in Los Angeles, occasionally writing scenarios for the movies, but concentrating most of his effort on the study…

…drove up a narrow, twisting road in the Hollywood Hills to the home of Aldous Huxley. This team was to interview Mr. Huxley on the general subject Can physical affliction lead one to creative endeavor? Few living men are as qualified as Mr. Huxley…

…interview Mr. Huxley on the general subject Can physical affliction lead one to creative endeavor? Few living men are as qualified as Mr. Huxley to speak on this subject. For not only is he a consummate literary artist, he has been, as you will hear him…

…literary artist, he has been, as you will hear him describe, for the greater part of his life, afflicted with partial blindness. Mr. Huxley himself met the members of the interviewing team at his front door, and led them into his light and airy living…

…room, in which not only the ceiling but the floor and the furniture coverings were white. Now in his 63rd year, Mr. Huxley is a self-described extreme ectomorph, tall, thin, and reminding one of a coiled spring. After the recording apparatus had been set…

…self-described extreme ectomorph, tall, thin, and reminding one of a coiled spring. After the recording apparatus had been set up, Mr. Huxley eased himself into a chair and graciously invited any and all questions. The background noises which you will hear…

…any and all questions. The background noises which you will hear were supplied by a gusty kite flying march wind. Well, Mr. Huxley, you've written that the most important single event in your life was the onset of eye trouble. Perhaps we could start…

…if you learn to use it well, you're less likely to be betrayed into using it badly by other people's machinations. Mr. Huxley, you've written a good deal about the problem of personal psychological freedom. and the problem of political freedom. Now, in a…

…nervous system and getting your organism to behave better than it will behave normally under the sorts of stresses of modern life. Mr. Huxley, if we may now turn more specifically to our general question, that is, how occlusion may inspire one to create a…

…satisfaction, I don't think they would let it go so easily. Well, perhaps what I'm asking is more of a value judgment, Mr. Huxley. Do you feel personally that a person would be better off with all his physical health and perhaps do nothing creative than…

…mean, on the spur of the moment, I can't think of an interesting subject to go into, actually, to write a little thesis on. Mr. Huxley, Los Angeles is regarded by many of its critics as being the epitome of all the worst aspects of the chrome and neon…

…the mornings always and generally I go out in the early part of the afternoon and maybe work a little again before dinner. Well, Mr. Huxley, we all certainly want to thank you for taking the time out to talk with us. Well, I think it hasn't been very…

…which opened onto a patio and then invited us to step outside and enjoy his splendid view of Los Angeles. With obvious enthusiasm, Mr. Huxley detailed the virtues of his location. His house is perched almost atop a hill, and to the east are the wilds of…

…basin, the eye being able to sweep from the Civic Center in the east to Santa Monica and the Pacific in the west. Mr. Huxley regretted that we could not see the view at night, for then it was, in his words, incredibly beautiful. In admiring the view,…

…the view at night, for then it was, in his words, incredibly beautiful. In admiring the view, one could not help wondering whether Mr. Huxley, for all his defective eyesight, might not be able to see it more clearly and admire it more deeply. As we were…

…defective eyesight, might not be able to see it more clearly and admire it more deeply. As we were preparing to leave, Mr. Huxley mentioned that he had once worked as a journalist, but that he had found the burden of the deadline terribly oppressive and…

…University of California in Berkeley, where we would hope he is reaping the critical and material rewards of his latest novel, Island. Mr. Huxley, in your very famous novel of 30 years ago, Brave New World, you drew us a picture of what I suppose was…

…think he had a remarkable gift of writing in general on philosophical and scientific subjects. So that it was in the family, Mr. Huxley, you said that you turned upon your own inner resources during those years of late adolescence and in your early 20s.…

…friends and a number of English friends living there too. So that I was never really alone then. Let me turn, if I may, Mr. Huxley, to one of your most famous novels, Brave New World. The world which you depicted for us in that novel was a world that…

…time of creating a society which will help them to do this, a good society. This, as I say, seems to me absolutely essential. Mr. Huxley, your book Island was, in a sense, an antidote to Brave New World. You showed us what could be. Why did you give…

…really important task of people, which is, as I say, to help as many people as possible to realize their desirable potentialities. Mr. Huxley, we hope that it was more literary than conviction, and that perhaps the kind of hopeful things you had to say…

…had to say on the island, at least in part, can come to pass. We've been talking with Aldous Huxley. We've talked with Mr. Huxley here on the campus of the University of California, where we've had the assistance of the television crew, for which we are…

…and novelist who, during the spring semester, is residing at the university in his capacity as a Ford research professor. Mr. Huxley has recently returned from a conference at the Institute for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, where the…

…and more recently through the techniques, the cruder techniques of psychological conditioning. The ultimate revolution about which Mr. Huxley will speak today concerns itself with the development of new behavioral controls which operate directly upon the…

…Mr. Huxley's works well know, this is a subject with which he has been concerned for quite a period of time. Mr. Huxley will make a presentation of approximately half an hour, followed by some brief discussions and questions by the two panelists sitting…

…followed by some brief discussions and questions by the two panelists sitting to my left, Ms. Lillian Rivlin and Mr. John Post. Mr. Huxley. Thank you. First of all I'd like to say that the conference at Santa Barbara was not directly concerned with the…

…I see that some of you are leaving for your 4 o'clock classes. I will give you an opportunity to leave now. If Mr. Huxley would be willing, we might be able to entertain some questions from the floor for a few moments, would you say? Certainly, yes.…

…We had some extremely good talks. I have one question here, which is... Well, this is essentially the question which Mr. Huxley addressed himself to in his last statement. How will control over the techniques been transmitted from one group to another?…

…there will be a meeting of the Graduate Student Association next Tuesday at noon. Now, I want to express our appreciation to Mr. Huxley on behalf of all of those who are here, lest our augmented knowledge restrict our understanding. Thank you very much.

…the speaker and in the opportunities of introducing the speaker. It's very difficult to decide exactly how one does introduce Mr. Huxley. It's easy to start off by talking about his relationship with English literature, his family background as the grandson…

…in history. I was thinking last night that I think it can literally be said that with one novel, Brave New World, Mr. Huxley has been read by more college students in America than any writer except Shakespeare. Always through this long period of writing,…

…it to happen that it is more likely to happen than some of the prophecies like 1984. And I think it's true that, as Mr. Huxley has said in Brave New World Revisited, that the major flaw of Brave New World is that he put the fulfillment of it six…

…questions, it may be that our collective intelligence will finally come up with adequate replies. Thank you. We want to thank Mr. Huxley for this talk. It's rather pleasurable in a world in which optimists have turned pessimists to see one who has satired…

…our speaker. Mr. Mayor. Provost Sanders, distinguished faculty members and guests, and ladies and gentlemen. Some of you probably heard Mr. Huxley speak in this same room about two years ago on the subject of the final revolution. At that time, he…

…the best of this extraordinarily wonderful and terrifying world of technique. Moreover, I am told by my friend Dr. Farber that after Mr. Huxley had made this suggestion, he met with him to sketch this program around what is surely one of the most pressing…

…best available minds can be brought together to discuss the chosen theme. Prominent among these leading minds, of course, was Mr. Huxley, who graces with his presence the occasion which he had godfathered. But Mr. Huxley's significance to us this evening…

…and not its master. And this is yet a possibility. But today it is a remote possibility compared to the threat which Mr. Huxley uniquely foresaw these 30 years ago. The techniques of science, no matter how pure they may seem in the beginning, are…

…the fear that tyrannical uses of these advances might be employed to manipulate and control the masses has frequently been voiced. Mr. Huxley, as many of you perhaps may not know, originally proposed to be a physician. You are well acquainted with his…

…to the sciences and literature. With a knowledge of scientific and technical potentials, and as a literary man, Mr. Huxley foresaw with astonishing clarity the alarming potentialities of scientific and technological developments that had hardly gotten underway…

…improve the system and a great deal for the actualization of intelligence and friendliness and creativity among human beings. Thank you. Well, Mr. Huxley, I am sure that we are all indebted to you for your most interesting address. And if I might use some…

…improve the system and a great deal for the actualization of intelligence and friendliness and creativity among human beings. Thank you. Well, Mr. Huxley, I am sure that we are all indebted to you for your most interesting address. And if I might use some…

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight Mr. Huxley speaks to us of a world of visionary experience. Mr. Huxley. I want to begin this talk with one of those questions which inquisitive children ask their parents and stump them completely by a question like why is…

Ladies and gentlemen, tonight Mr. Huxley speaks to us of a world of visionary experience. Mr. Huxley. I want to begin this talk with one of those questions which inquisitive children ask their parents and stump them completely by a question like why is…

…his writings, which is the least frequently mentioned, perhaps never mentioned. Now why should I know about this writing of Mr. Huxley? It's a sheer accident, totally unrelated to our gathering tonight. Some two weeks ago, for reasons that have absolutely…

…to mean The sleep of reason engenders monsters. And as I read over the text that accompanied this etching, I found that Mr. Huxley had an alternative interpretation. He pointed out that the word el sueño in Spanish means not only the dream, the sleep,…

…Aldous Huxley whether he believes that the sleep of reason or the dreams of reason are the most dangerous aspects of modern life. Mr. Huxley. Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, first of all let me say that I think both the sleep of reason and the dream…

…pray that we may understand it not only in peace but in action, not only as the supreme wisdom but as universal love. Mr. Huxley, what do you think of the word escape? So often that word is hurled at us psychologically, and don't you think that there…

…would involve something again quite different. And it seems to me there is no place for a thing like that, unfortunately. Mr. Huxley, what about the sublimation of things that we would escape? You mean the sublimation of violence and things like that? Of…