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Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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Christianity
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