"I agree entirely with what you say about the strength of indoctrinated prejudice."

"I do not feel that the question of the evolution of the universe forces us to postulate a God. You will find that many astronomers, Ryle and Hoyle recently, have put forward theories on the origin of the universe, none of which necessitate divine interference. It is certainly perfectly possible to base your ethical views on Christianity without believing in a God. We cannot place our responsibility to make decisions about life on anybody else, divine or human. It is a form of intellectual cowardice to put one's faith in a dogma, be it Christian, Marxist, or Fascist."

Card is addressed to the Reids, c/o BR.

"I remember very acutely the hectic days of 1918-19 and it pleases me to hear from a comrade and co-prisoner of that struggle."

"Plas Penrhyn (sent from #29)"

"I know nothing of the etymology of the word 'sin' except what I have been able to find in the Oxford Dictionary which does not bear out your interesting suggestion. It appears that the word is of Teutonic origin, but is cognate to the Latin sons, which means 'guilty' and represented a very positive idea, not the negation that you suggest."

Clip concerns BR's speech at Cardiff.

Re: Sino-Indian conflict and Khrushchev.

"William Lord Russell was, indeed, my ancestor. He provided me with an example, only I was not deprived of my head as a result of my own day at the old Bailey."

"Of all the books that I have written, it has always seemed to me that The Conquest of Happiness has done the most good. This has always surprised me, since it was merely an attempt to apply commonsense to everyday ethical problems. It is perhaps one of the major tragedies of our century that so many people are imprisoned in conventional dogma and so are unable to discuss their problems with each other. Freedom of thought often seems a right that is almost physically impossible to deny, but every person who speaks or writes in the phraseology of political and religious dogma helps to destroy this freedom."

Enclosed are 3 letters to and from Grote and Time re its review of Human Society in Ethics and Politics.

Encloses (not present) his article from Jewish Chronicle, "Religion and the H.-Bomb"; it is based on BR's "Manifesto" but not specifying exactly what.

"... The Conquest of Happiness ... is largely concerned with the kind of unhappiness that you suffer from."

"To my mind, the important matter in politics is the question of power. Those who have power tend to be unjust to those who have not. This is the argument for democracy and the basic objection to the Communist regimes of the present day."

[BR goes on to list writings of his that concern power.]

Ts. is an extract from Gupta's PhD. thesis.

Extract is titled "The Korean Crisis in the Perspective of the World Crisis".

Gupta objects to what BR wrote about Gandhi and sex in Unpopular Essays.

Draft reply in Edith Russell's hand appears in top corner.

Ts. is a list of BR's books published in Italy.

"He [BR] wishes me to say that long ago he read Husserl's Logical Investigations, but he thought that his work, like that of Meinong, lost its value in view of his own, Lord Russell's, theory of descriptions. He has not read any of Husserl's subsequent work."

Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament "is particularly well advanced".

On verso of Hacher's letter.