As the grandson of Darwin's bulldog, Thomas Huxley, and the great nephew of Matthew Arnold, he seemed to embody the double inheritance of the Victorian age.

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In 1825, Thomas Henry Huxley, British naturalist and humanist and originator of the word agnostic, born.

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The city has boasted an impressive colony of writers ever since, for their various reasons, Aldous Huxley, Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht and F.

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In fact, by the 1960s Los Angeles had played host, however fleetingly, to a huge variety of authors, musicians and artists, among them Bertolt Brecht, Joan Didion, Jascha Heifetz, David Hockney, Huxley himself, Christopher Isherwood, Thomas Mann, Robert Motherwell, Nathanael West, Artur Rubinstein, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky.

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Maslow helped a bit by giving a list of people he felt had reached self-actualisation: Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, William James, Albert Schweitzer, Benedict Spinoza and Aldous Huxley, as well as 12 unnamed people alive at the time Maslow did his research.

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