Ends and Means: An Enquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods employed and their Realization.

HUXLEY, Aldous.

Item Number: 135824

London: Chatto & Windus, 1937.

First edition of this collection of Huxley’s first full-length work of philosophy. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a good dust jacket.

Ends and Means contains a collection of essays focused on the ideal goals of human effort with illuminating tracts on war, religion, nationalism and ethics. It was cited as a major influence on Thomas Merton in his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain.