BR TO BBC / ANNA KALLIN, 26 NOV. 1946
BRACERS 57528. TLS(X). BBC Written Archives
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Trinity College,
Cambridge.
26th November, 1946.

Miss Anna Kallin,
The British Broadcasting Corporation
Broadcasting House
London, W.1.

Dear Miss Kallin,

Thank you for your letter and for the scripts. I will piece together something on the lines of the pages you have marked, making the necessary re-wording as I go. I think “Empiricist Liberalism” might do for a title,1 not “Western Democracy”, because I do not want a geographical implication. I suppose that this is to be under a general title “Contemporary Thought”.

I am amused by what you say about Haldane. He wrote to my publisher saying there was one subject upon which he profoundly disagreed with me, namely Aristotle’s biology. I had supposed there were also other matters of disagreement.

Yours very sincerely,
Russell.

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  “Empiricist Liberalism” might do for a title The manuscript was titled “Empiricism and Democracy”, the BBC script “Science and Democracy”. The Listener published it as “A Scientist’s Plea for Democracy” (16 Jan. 1947; B&R C47.02; reprinted as 25 in Collected Papers 24).