Note 56 — Chapter XXI · THE SYNTHETIC NATURE OF DEDUCTION

[The following passage is almost word for word the same as a passage on pp. 123-5 of Mr. Russell’s Problems of Philosophy, first published in 1912, a year after Mr. R*ss*ll’s death. It is easy hastily to conclude that Mr. Russell was indebted to Mr. R*ss*ll to a greater degree than is usually supposed. But an examination of the internal evidence leads us to another conclusion. The two texts, it will be found, differ only in the names of the German Emperor, the Crown Prince and the other personages being replaced, in the book of 1912, by those of Messrs. Brown, Jones, Smith, and Robinson. Now, Mr. Russell, in a new edition of his Problems issued near the beginning of the European war and before the Russian revolution, substituted “the Emperor of Russia” for “the Emperor of China” of the first edition. Hence it seems quite likely that Mr. Russell, who has always shown a tendency to substitute existents for nonentities, wrote Mr. R*ss*ll’s notes.—Ed.]