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...LIFE OF BERTRAND RUSSELL...
...FATHER, BERTRAND RUSSELL...
...mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell was a child's delight, full of games and good spirits and tall tales. As the Pied Piper of Cairn Voel, his country retreat on the Cornwall coast, he used to lead his young followers on hunts for the ingredients of a special home brew-a concoction of stagnant water, mold, dead leaves, old grass and whatever other unsavories could be dredged up at the moment...
Russell. Nor would it do when in 1927 Bertrand and Dora opened up Beacon Hill, a progressive school where children were allowed to roam the grounds naked and taught how to be good, godless creatures of the earth...
Although far less ambitious and comprehensive than Clark's biography, My Father, Bertrand Russell succeeds better in bringing the man into focus. Katharine Tait, Russell's daughter by Dora, understands what linked the brilliant young nationalist of the Principia Mathematica (who with his teacher Whitehead and his student Wittgenstein redirected modern philosophy away from German idealism) to the political and sexual provocateur of later years: "All his life he sought perfection: perfect mathematical truth, perfect philosophical clarity, a perfect formula for society, and a perfect woman to live with in a perfect human relationship...