"London: 'Average Men and Women Were Delighted At The Prospect of War" by Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell's thoughts on the people's reaction to entering World War I:

• He did not believe that England would be foolish enough to plunge into war
• He wrote a paper at Cambridge about how England ought to stay neutral if war breaks out
• Amazed at how the average person was delighted at the thought of war
• Russel foresaw the horror of World War I before anyone else
• With the amount of people in support of the war, Russell became involved in Psychoanalysis and agreed that human nature is inherently aggressive
• He had not seen anybody love something as much as the people loved war
• He was disgusted at the propaganda of each nation and saw a "return to barbarism"
• These people called themselves "patriots" but they were actually barbarians
• The war was not fought between countries but between men who shared things in common