Volume 8, Number 7 · April 20, 1967
The Education of Bertrand Russell
By Stuart Hampshire
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell
by Bertrand Russell
Atlantic-Little Brown, 356 pp., $7.95
For many decades Lord Russell has been disclosing his more intimate feelings, and his views on private and public morality, to an enormous public. During his long life his emotions, his changing opinions, and many of his experiences in love and in friendship, no less than his face and the sound of his voice, have become a familiar part of the public scene. Alongside the history of his development as the original master of the modern movement in philosophy, there is another history of the popular moralist. In a steady flow of books, articles, and famous BBC broadcasts, he has shown himself to be extremely gifted in addressing a very large public in a style that is at once elevated, direct, and easy.
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