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But why, in this instance? It is an enquiry worth pursuing, if only as an act of piety; for upon many of us who came to consciousness in the twenties, Huxley exerted an influence second only perhaps to that of T. S. Eliot in opening our minds to fundamental philosophical problems.

The influence was, it must be admitted, iconoclastic, but pace Messrs. Babbitt and Kirk, there are times when there is immense value to iconoclasm. When the icons are not only, images of false gods, but stuffy to boot—and Heaven knows they were in the years after World War One—the road to truth and to the recovery of tradition will inevitably pass over the debris of shattered images. Other roads, it is true, also pass over the same field of shards. some leading to the shrines of gods as false and infinitely more malignant. some leading nowhere, petering out in wastes of meaninglessness.

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But why, in this instance? It is an enquiry worth pursuing, if only as an act of piety; for upon many of us who came to consciousness in the twenties, Huxley exerted an influence second only perhaps to that of T. S. Eliot in opening our minds to fundamental philosophical problems.

The influence was, it must be admitted, iconoclastic, but pace Messrs. Babbitt and Kirk, there are times when there is immense value to iconoclasm. When the icons are not only, images of false gods, but stuffy to boot—and Heaven knows they were in the years after World War One—the road to truth and to the recovery of tradition will inevitably pass over the debris of shattered images. Other roads, it is true, also pass over the same field of shards. some leading to the shrines of gods as false and infinitely more malignant. some leading nowhere, petering out in wastes of meaninglessness.