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" Fact and fiction / "
Bertrand Russell.
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BL
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103274
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b60734
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| Main Entry
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Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970.
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Fact and fiction /\ Bertrand Russell.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, c2010.
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Routledge classics
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xv, 304 p. ;; 20 cm.
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9780415487320 (pbk.)
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: 0415487323 (pbk.)
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: 9780203864661 (eb)
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: 0203864662 (eb)
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| Notes
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Originally published: London : Allen & Unwin, 1961.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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the Navigator -- Prince Napoleon Louis -- The catalogue -- Parables -- Planetary effulgence -- The misfortune of being out of date -- Murderers' fatherland -- Part IV: Peace and war -- Psychology and East-West tension -- War and peace in my lifetime -- The social responsibilities of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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Philosophy.
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| Dewey Classification
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192
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100
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B1649.R91 2010
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