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A Last visit from Aldous 奥尔德斯最后一次来访 By Julian Huxley 朱利安·赫胥黎 ? In August 1963, not long after we got back to England, we met Aldous at Heathrow Airport. We knew at once that there was something terribly wrong with him; he was ashy-complexioned, very thin, and his voice had but half its usual volume. Yes, he said, he was very tired, having just been in Stockholm at a great meeting of intellectuals, trying to discover means to bring peace to the world. He had in fact sat up all night drafting some sort of plan, as nothing definite had been devised by the Committee, and in addition he had caught