Norbert Wiener writes: "I believe I have helped to sow the seeds of discontent here against the preposterous position of Mr. Russell, who claims that we can be acquainted with certain individual things which we know to be unanalysable: that we can name a thing, without involving any description of it."

"The Galmans seem to be down on Russell, and judging from what they told me of the way he treated his wife [Alys], I don't blame them. And to think that this man is willing to go to parliament as the advocate of woman's rights."