BRACERS Record Detail for 54770
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Two photocopies. A photocopy of a typed copy of the letter is attached. BR has written: "[As from] Trinity College". Reverence for individuality and initiative "are increasingly threatened in our highly organized and centralized societies".
BR TO STORY PRESS / WHIT BURNETT, 13 SEPT. 1947
BRACERS 54770. ALS(X). Princeton U. Library
Proofread by K. Blackwell
[As from] Trinity College, Cambridge
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Penralltgoch
Llan Ffestiniog
Merioneth
Sep. 13, 1947
Dear Mr. Burnett
Thank you for your letter of August 28. I am glad to know that I stand so high in popular estimation. I am sorry I cannot possibly choose 100 contemporary authors for your poll.
As regards a selection from my own writings, I suggest the chapter “Education” in Why Men Fight.1 The following gives my reason for this selection:
“I have selected this chapter because reverence for human individuality and mental initiative are, in my opinion, of the utmost importance, and are increasingly threatened in our highly organized and centralized societies”.
Yours truly
Bertrand Russell.
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a selection from my own writings … “Education” in Why Men Fight Published in The World’s Best, ed. Whit Burnett (New York: Dial Press, 1950), p. 447 (B&R B97); quoted in Collected Papers 24, p. 614??.