ALDOUS HUXLEY'S SPEECH AT BERKELEY IN 1962 "THE ULTIMATE REVOLUTION"

 

Notable Oxford graduate and British author of novel "Brave New World" 1932 which cited the ethos of " COMMUNITY - identity - security " in its opening passages about the scientific dictatorship of the future ... Aldous said: "The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of a democracy, but would basically be a prison without walls. " - Aldous Huxley born July 26, 1894. He authored some 50 books. Huxley died at age 69, on the very same day C.S. Lewis died and John F. Kennedy's assassination which was November 22, 1963 - Aldous was born in Godalming, Surrey, England. He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley, who edited Cornhill Magazine, and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School. Julia was the niece of poet and critic Matthew Arnold and the sister of Mrs. Humphry Ward. Julia named him Aldous after a character in one of her sister's novels. Aldous was the grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley, the zoologist, agnostic, and controversialist ("Darwin's Bulldog").