Aldous Huxley Quotes
If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.
Huxley, Aldous. Point Counter Point. Chatto & Windus, 1928, p. 28.
When she was a French Administrator in occupied Germany after WWII, there was constant spying on the French by the Americans and English and Vice Versa.
This same view was given be a historian almost 1000 years earlier. See {587996}.
Almost 1000 years later one of America’s leading historians would express the same idea. See {587939}.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910. At the time, one curiosity was the “Flea Circus”. This was a glass container containing fleas that would have been taught to do various tricks. The “trainers” would charge people a small amount of money to view the different tricks. So this was an insult to the intelligence of Congressmen that most people at the time would easily understand.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.
