The Franklin Merrell-Wolff Fellowship

This letter from Aldous Huxley was a report to Elizabeth Baum on his reading of Pathways Through to Space, a copy of which Ms. Baum had sent to him. Unfortunately, only the first page of this letter is in the Wolff Archive.

Huxley begins his report on the book by noting that “I was much interested by its subtle analysis of personal experience and by the philosophical reflections, most of which I agree with—though I wish I could share the author’s conviction that power politics are on the decline and that the technician is a force opposed to power politics.” He says a few words on this latter point, and then turns to Wolff’s discussion of the heat generated by contemplatives and mentions some Western examples of this phenomenon. (1 page)