Tracking down this oft-shared passage (usually quoted from ‘To be able to destroy’ onward) was helped by a reader of the Wirkman Comment blog. (Thanks much!) From that reader’s direction, I bought the precise edition of Erewhon in question, and verified the exact wording, which is quoted, inaccurately, in several books of quotation and on the Web as from Huxley’s excellent first novel, Crome Yellow.
I have been looking everywhere for the true source of this quote. I saw most attribute it to just “Aldous Huxley” with zero context as to where he wrote it down or if he said it verbally to someone. https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-aldous-huxley-20160726-snap-story.html said it was a quote from Crome Yellow, so I got a copy of Crome Yellow and found the quotation absolutely nowhere. After several weeks of looking, I stumbled across your site and the real answer. Thank you so much.
I have been looking everywhere for the true source of this quote. I saw most attribute it to just “Aldous Huxley” with zero context as to where he wrote it down or if he said it verbally to someone. https://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-aldous-huxley-20160726-snap-story.html said it was a quote from Crome Yellow, so I got a copy of Crome Yellow and found the quotation absolutely nowhere. After several weeks of looking, I stumbled across your site and the real answer. Thank you so much.
Oh, and a source to back you up:
https://books.google.com/books?id=eIAaAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=delicious