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This Petty Pace
Hazlitt, Henry | June 4, 1930 issue

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This article presents information on the book "Brief Candles," by Aldous Huxley. After half a dozen volumes Aldous Huxley has returned to the short story, but he does not bring his old irresponsibility with him. He has acquired a Message, and he insists that readers shall hear it. Against the ideal of superhuman he pleads for the ideal of perfected humanity. But it is at the farthest pole from Babbittean humanism, for instead of moderation Huxley believes in excess, provided that one excess is counterbalanced by another, and instead of believing in the will to refrain and the middle level he holds that a human being should completely and intensely live on every plane of existence.

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BRIEF Candles (Book); HUXLEY, Aldous, 1894-1963; SHORT stories; HUMANITY; BOOKS; HUMANISM
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