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Orphaned at the age of four, Bertrand Russell studied both mathematics and philosophy (with McTaggart) at Cambridge University, where he later taught. As the grandson of a British prime minister, Russell devoted much of his public effort to matters of general social concern.
He was jailed for writing a pacifist pamphlet during the First World War and attacked Bolshevism and Stalin in 1920, after visiting the Soviet Union.
Bertrand russell quotesRussell supported the battle against Fascism during World War II but continued to protest Western colonialization and publicly deplored the development of weapons of mass destruction, as is evident in "The Bomb and Civilization" (1945), New Hopes for a Changing World (1951), and his untitled last essay.
Throughout his life, Russell was an outspoken critic of organized religion as both unfounded and deceptive; he detailed its harmful social consequences in "Why I Am Not a Christian" (1927) and defended an agnostic alternative in "A Free Man's Worship" (1903).
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