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The following essays have been written and published at various times, and my thanks are due to the previous publishers for the permission to reprint them. The essay on "Mysticism and Logic" appeared in the Hibbert Journal for July, 1914. "The Place of Science in a Liberal Education" appeared in two numbers of The New Statesman, May 24 and 31, 1913. "The Free Man's Worship" and "The Study of Mathematics" were included in a former collection (now out of print), Philosophical Essays, also published by Messrs. Longmans, Green & Co. Both were written in 1902; the first appeared originally in the Independent Review for 1903, the second in the. | Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Russell Bertrand Published 1918 Categorie s Non-Fiction Philosophy Religion Science and Technics Science Source Project Gutenberg 1 About Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS 18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970 was a British philosopher logician mathematician historian religious sceptic social reformer socialist and pacifist. Although he spent the majority of his life in England he was born in Wales where he also died. Russell led the British revolt against idealism in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy along with his protégé Wittgenstein and his elder Frege. He co-authored with A. N. Whitehead Principia Mathematica an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. His philosophical essay On Denoting has been considered a paradigm of philosophy. Both works have had a considerable influence on logic mathematics set theory linguistics and analytic philosophy. He was a prominent anti-war activist championing free trade between nations and anti-imperialism. Russell was imprisoned for his pacifist activism during World War I campaigned against Adolf Hitler for nuclear disarmament criticised Soviet totalitarianism and the United States of America s involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1950 Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in recognition of his varied and significant writings in which he champions humanitarian ideals and freedom of thought. Also available on Feedbooks for Russell The Problems of Philosophy 1912 Political Ideals 1917 Proposed Roads to Freedom 1918 Copyright This work was published before 1923 and is in the public domain in the USA only. Note This book is brought to you by Feedbooks http Strictly for personal use do not use this file for commercial purposes. 2 Preface The following essays have been written and published at various times and my thanks are due to the previous publishers for the permission to reprint them. The essay on

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