Rob Edwards
Bertrand Russell: “Average Men and Women were Delighted at the Prospect of War”
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a distinguished mathematician and philosopher
He was dismayed by the war fever that gripped English men and women
He said that during the end of July, in 1914, he really thought there wouldn't be a war because he didn't think Europe would be so mad as to enter into one
wants for England to remain neutral if war does break out
He finds that even after many people had told him they agreed that England should remain neutral, once war was actually declared, they completely changed their stance
Average men and women were delighted at the prospect of war
appalled by how the masses are so desirous of war without fully realizing the carnage that would ensue
“As a lover of truth, the national propaganda of all the belligerent nations sickened me. As a lover of civilization, the return to barbarism appalled me”
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