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Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

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Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby JDMalament » May 10th, 2010, 4:47 pm

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Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby Nerd42 » May 10th, 2010, 8:11 pm

I assumed Huxley was Aldous Huxley. No idea if my assumption was correct or not. As for the other two, no idea, but Aldous Huxley seemed like the obvious answer to the third one to me.
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Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby Sven » May 10th, 2010, 8:19 pm

Rat! he found breath to whisper, shaking. Are you afraid?
Afraid? murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.
Afraid! Of Him? O, never, never! And yet -- and yet -- O, Mole, I am afraid!
Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
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Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby JDMalament » May 10th, 2010, 10:59 pm

Thanks guys! I was leaning towards A.E. Housman, but as Sven said, you can't know for sure. As for the Huxley's, Aldous was certainly my first guess, but I discovered that the other two were particularly well known for their atheism and T.H. Huxley's nickname was "Darwin's bulldog."

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Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby Nerd42 » May 11th, 2010, 8:53 pm

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Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby JDMalament » May 11th, 2010, 9:38 pm

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Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby Nerd42 » May 12th, 2010, 1:49 am

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Re: Question Concerning "The Problem of Pain"

Postby agingjb » June 4th, 2010, 8:25 pm

Aldous Huxley's "The Perennial Philosophy" doesn't suggest that he was an atheist, although I doubt if CSL would have found it to be more than an interesting anthology. But that book was written after "The Problem of Pain". It could be of course, however unlikely it may seem, that Aldous Huxley's publicly expressed views changed from atheism to a sort of theism over time.

More relevantly, the use of "Mr Huxley" rather than "Huxley" does imply a reference to a writer living at the time of writing (1940), which would exclude Thomas Huxley.
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