BR TO WARREN ALLEN SMITH, 24 FEB. 1951
BRACERS 119415. TLS. Houghton Library, Harvard U.
Proofread by K. Blackwell

41, Queen’s Road,1
Richmond,
Surrey.
February 24th, 1951

Dear Mr Smith,

You ask me whether I call myself a Scientific Humanist or a Naturalistic Humanist. I am not in the habit of giving myself labels, which I leave to others. I should not have any inclination to call myself a humanist, as I think, on the whole, that the non-human part of the cosmos is much more interesting and satisfactory than the human part.

But if anybody feels inclined to call me a Humanist, I shall not bring an action for libel.

Yours sincerely,
<signed> Russell
(Earl Russell)

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