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...Bertrand Russell, prominent philosopher, will deliver a lecture open to the University, under the auspices of the Philosophical Club, in the New Lecture Hall Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The subject of the lecture will be "The Philosophy of Physics...
MARRIAGE AND MORALS-Bertrand Russell-Horace Liveright...
...Thesis. Bertrand Russell displays present-day laws and ideas about sex as an extraordinary potpourri* obtained from savages, ascetics, Roman lawyers, Manichaean heretics, Teuton romanticists. All of them, says he, are based upon the idea of indissoluble connection between coition and conception, which is practically no longer true. Showing the disastrous effects of this makeshift state of affairs, he then considers various other possibilities, from the standpoint of the state, the child, the adult. His own proposal goes a step further than companionate marriage-as the family is of importance chiefly to the child, a man and woman should...
...Author. Bertrand Russell is heir presumptive to an earldom, but he shares with his famed sister-in-law? the honor of making people forget his title and remember his work. He is known for books on mathematics, philosophy, sociology, education. He formerly held a fellowship at Cambridge, but was deprived of it during the War for his writings against conscription, for which he was for a time imprisoned. He says of himself: "I like the sea, logic, theology, heraldry, the first two because they are inhuman, the others because they are absurd...
...Bertrand Arthur William Russell, described by the New York Telegram as "catsup-faced, white-haired," arrived last week in Manhattan for a U. S. lecture tour.* His points...