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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• The misfortune of being out of date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.

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Author/Creator:

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

Contributors:

NetLibrary, Inc.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Fact and fiction [by Russell, B.]

Related Series:

Routledge classics

Subjects:

Philosophy

General Notes:

Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, 1961.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 304 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

B1649 .R91 2010eb

ISBNs:

9780203864661 (electronic bk.)
0203864662 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

459789737