Huxley Family/rachel Huxley 1862-1934 and Issue

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    “A life-worshipper’s philosophy is comprehensive.... He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death ... and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

    “The same dreadful set,
    the same family of orange and pink faces
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    who wait for their jaws to open and shut.”
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