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Aldous Huxley, Life And Works

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...their influence, and that of his social class, is apparent in his writing. He was born July 26, 1894, "into a family that included some of the most distinguished members of that part of the English ruling class made up of the intellectual elite" (Aldous Huxley: The author and his times, 1985). His grandfather was Thomas Henry Huxley, who helped develop the theory of evolution; his aunt was a novelist, Mrs. Humphrey Ward; Mrs. Ward was "the niece of Matthew Arnold, the poet; and the granddaughter of Thomas Arnold" who was later immortalized as the headmaster of Rugby School in Tom Brown's schooldays (Aldous Huxley: The author and his times, 1985).
His heritage appears to have been important to Huxley at the same time that it was something of a burden; a long-time friend, Gerald Heard, wrote that Huxley's family and upbringing "brought down on him a weight of intellectual authority and a momentum of moral obligations" (Aldous Huxley: The author and his times, 1985)....

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