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Bertrand Russell
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Routledge
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I: Books that influenced me in youth
The importance of Shelley
The romance of revolt
Revolt in the abstract
Disgust and its antidote
An education in history
The pursuit of truth
Part II: Politics and education
What is freedom?
What is democracy?
A scientist's plea for democracy
The story of colonization
Pros and cons of nationalism
The reasoning of Europeans
The world i should like to live in
Old and young cultures
Education for a difficult world
University education
Part III: Divertissements
Cranks
The right will prevail or the road to lhasa
Newly discovered maxims of la rochefoucauld
Nightmares
The fisherman's nightmare or magna est veritas
The theologian's nightmare
Dreams
Jowett
God
Henry the navigator
Prince napoleon louis
The catalogue
Parables
Planetary effulgence
The misfortune of being out-of-date
Murderers' fatherland
Part IV: Peace and war
Psychology and East-West tension
War and peace in my lifetime
The social responsibilities of scientists
Three essentials for a stable world
Population pressure and war
Vienna address
Manchester address
What neutrals can do to save the world
The case for British neutralism
Can war be abolished?
Human life is in danger.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, 1961.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
London, New York
Series
Routledge classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
192
Library of Congress
B1649 .R91 2009, B1649, B1649 .R91 2010, B1649 .R91 2010eb

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24060883M
ISBN 10
0415487323
ISBN 13
9780415487320, 9780203864661
LCCN
2009024749
OCLC/WorldCat
459789737, 352542384

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