Footnote

a As do many today, Huxley noted Christendom’s injustices. In an essay on agnosticism, he wrote: “If we could only see . . . the torrents of hypocrisy and cruelty, the lies, the slaughter, the violations of every obligation of humanity, which have flowed from this source along the course of the history of Christian nations, our worst imaginations of Hell would pale beside the vision.”