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Index-Card-H-60-02 Date 6 May 46 Self-Transcendence.

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Commenting on Aldous Huxley (Ends & Means)

DEH: “This view is fundamentally wrong: we have all he sensitivity & the organs that our level requires to be our level. The inferred world beyond is the world of our wider-than-human selves.The point is that there is nothing accidental or arbitrary, or merely negative, about our view of the world — that view is a part of what we are, not an accident of what we are. The radiations of other wave-lengths belong to other levels. My New Humanism puts man back as the Measure of all things.”

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DH: “The tables turned on Marx. If one’s philosophy follows from one’s economic relations, then dialectical materialism has no claim to more than temporary validity.”

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Date: Bury 28.11.45

DH: “Your behaviour determines your world-view. This is [diagram pointing up and down, the relationship between levels]. Your world-view determines your behaviour. [Diagram illustrating this.] Both interact. Do the works & thou shall know of the doctrine. Know the doctrine, realise it, & the works will prove your grasp of it. What you put into the world in action & thought [diag] you will receive back in treatment by the world [diag] Sow thy bread upon the waters & it shall return unto thee after many days.”

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