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The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.


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He also served on the editorial board with IAldous Huxleyrwood Heard and playwright John van Druten from 1951 through 1962. From these he put forward some warnings in his writings and talks. In 1944 Huxley wrote the introduction to the "Bhagavad Gita: The Song of God" translated by Swami Prabhavanada and Christopher IAldous Huxleyrwood which was publiAldous Huxleyd by The Vedanta Society of Southern California.

He is also well known for advocating and taking psychedelics. Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry and publiAldous Huxleyd short stories poetry travel writing film stories and scripts. Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

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