thorough and detailed knowledge of any branch of science is impossible. It is also unnecessary. All that is necessary, so far as the man of letters is concerned, is a general knowledge of science...and an appreciation of the ways in which scientific information and scientific modes of thought are relevant to individual experience...." Included in James Sexton's Selected Letters of Aldous Huxley is a "My dear Tom" letter that Huxley wrote to Eliot: "I venture to recommend" Alfred Korzybski's Science and Sanity, "by far the best thing on 'semantics' and the problem of the relations between words and things, ever produced." Hope for the Future Although Huxley remains best known for his early novel Brave New World, scholars agree that the strength in his later writing belongs to his non-fiction prose. George Woodcock writes of "Huxley's diminution as a novelist," noting that "...even if Huxley the artist died after Eyeless in Gaza, Huxley the prose craftsman remained as much alive as ever." Harold H. Watts notes that Huxley's books "...in this final and extended period of his life" are "the work of a man who is meditating on the central problems of many modern men." In Literature and Science, Huxley, acknowledging that "it will be difficult to incorporate the hypotheses of science into harmonious, moving and persuasive works of art," nevertheless expresses the hope that "sooner or later the necessary means will be discovered, the appropriate weapons will be forged, the long-awaited pioneer of genius will turn up and...point out the way." References 1963 essays Essays about literature Books by Aldous Huxley Harper & Row books