Carolina Quotes'Tis the Lord's doing. Marvellous is the plan By which this best of worlds is wisely planned. One law He made for woman, one for man: We bow the head and do not understand.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Second Philosopher's Song", st. 3
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- Leda (1920)
- year
- 1920
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“'Tis the Lord's doing. Marvellous is the plan By which this …” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-778DF666F9. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/778df666f9
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To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with survival or to a human being obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large — this is an experience of inestimable value to everyone and especially to the intellectual.
Leaving you defenceless against the full consciousness of the fact that you can’t do without your fellow humans, and that, when you’re with them, they make you sick.
Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?