ABSTRACT
At the end of Those Barren Leaves a man named Calamy went away to meditate upon reality. In Mr. Aldous Huxley's new novel, Point Counter Point, a man named Rampion propounds a notion of reality which Calamy was very unlikely to have found in solitary meditation, be cause it is a discovery that could only be made in active social life. For Rampion the 'central norm' was humanity. He was ready to explain what he meant by humanity, and therefore was not talking through his hat when he declared the world to be 'an asylum of perverts' from that norm, 'perverted towards goodness or badness, towards spirit or flesh,' perverted by the imagination, the intellect, its principles, its tradition and education, perverted in morals, in politics, in science, in business, in war, in love, trying always to be something other than human.
