T.S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley: A comparative study in modern ideologies

Put shortly, these are the two views, then. Once, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is intrinsically limited, but disciplined by order and tradition to something fairly decent. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical. It is not the purpose of this paper to redefine the two terms, romanticism and classicism. It is not even its purpose to define two new concepts, somewhat akin to the above two. It is, specifically and basically a comparative study of two men, T.S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley.