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Aldous Huxley's Experimentation with Hallucinogenic Drugs
Aldous Huxley was known to many for his famous writing The Doors of Perception. He experimented with Hallucinogenic drugs in the 1950's and wrote many essays on his findings. Aldous Huxley experiments made his life change in many ways, good and bad.
As Aldous grew up, deciding what he wanted to do with his life was easy. His father Doctor Leonard Huxley was a teacher, editor, and writer and his mother was of literacy accomplishment. His grandfather was a scientist known as "Darwin's bulldog" and his brother was a scientist as well (Magill's, Page 793). Huxley was a lanky, delicately framed child who was gifted intellectually. His father was a professional herbalist as well as an author, so Aldous began his learning in his father's well-equipped botanical laboratory, then continued in a school named Hillside, which his mother supervised for several years until she became terminally ill. Aldous was then educated in the......

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