first edition Hard Cover
1945 · New York
by Huxley, Aldous
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. First American edition (9-5, H-U codes on copyright page), preceding the UK edition. Lacks jacket. A few small spots on boards, minimal pencil marginalia on a few pages. 1945 Hard Cover. 312 pp. The Perennial Philosophy is a 1945 book by Aldous Huxley. According to Huxley, the perennial philosophy is: "the metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantial to the world of things and lives and minds; the psychology that finds in the soul something similar to, or even identical with, divine Reality; the ethic that places man's final end in the knowledge of the immanent and transcendent Ground of all being; the thing is immemorial and universal. Rudiments of the perennial philosophy may be found among the traditional lore of primitive peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a place in every one of the higher religions.
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