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PHILOSOPHY
THE ANALYSIS OF MIND
INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL PHILOSOPHY
OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD
AN OUTLINE OF PHILOSOPHY
SCEPTICAL ESSAYS
SOCIAL SCIENCE
PRINCIPLES OF SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION
ROADS TO FREEDOM
JUSTICE IN WAR-TIME
FREE THOUGHT AND OFFICIAL PROPAGANDA
MARRIAGE AND MORALS
EDUCATIONAL
ON EDUCATION: ESPECIALLY IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
THE PROBLEM OF CHINA
With DORA RUSSELL:
THE PROSPECTS OF INDUSTRIAL CIVILIZATION
With SCOTT NEARING:
BOLSHEVISM AND THE WEST
BERTRAND RUSSELL
THE CONQUEST OF HAPPINESS
LONDON GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD MUSEUM STREET
FIRST PUBLISHED OCTOBER 1930 SECOND IMPRESSION NOVEMBER 1930 THIRD IMPRESSION DECEMBER 1930
All rights reserved PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY UNWIN BROTHERS LTD., WOKING
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. Walt Whitman