BRACERS Notes

Record no. Notes, topics or text
24502
24503

Ts. is titled "A Christmas Appeal to Save the World's Children".

24504

BR's letter is mistakenly addressed to "Miss Elsa Hieb".

24505

Ts. is titled "A Spring Appeal to Save the World's Children".

24506
24507

Ts. is titled "International Children's World Peace Crusade".

24508
24509
24510
24511
24512
24513
24514
24515
24516
24517
24518
24519

Re: general election campaign strategy for anti-nuclear movement.

24520

Autographed offprint of "Scientists and Society" by Hildebrand: American Scientist, vol. 42, no. 3, July 1954.

24521
24522
24523
24524
24525
Leaflet is "manifesto" in support of the human race.
24526
24527

Draft reply to this Vancouver resident written in margin by ER.

24528
24529

Relocated from H's.

24530
Note on letter: "ans 4/7/57".
24531
24532

Enclosed letters to Frederick Hilton.
 

24533
24534
24535
24536
24537
24538

BR's letter is mistakenly addressed to "Fulk [sic for Frdk] Hilton", but at that point he did not have the benefit of the next letter.

24539
24540
24541
24542
24543
24544
24545

Suggests a "magnetic umbrella" to be set up over cities to repel missiles and bombs.

24546

Declines to comment on the scientific issues of a magnetic umbrella.

24547
24548

"I am happy to accept the kind invitation to become an honorary member of the Oxford University Humanist Group."

24549
24550
24551
24552

Capt. B.H. Liddell Hart was the president.

24553

Thanks him for The Free World Review and returns it having read Hinterhoff's article.

24554

Leaflet promotes The Free World Review.

24555
24556
24557

Miss Decima A. Robertson Hipwell.

24558

Letter written on verso of photograph of Miss Robertson Hipwell.

24559
24560
24561

On verso of Hirsch's letter.

"As regards Whitehead, I have dealt with him from a personal point of view in Portraits from Memory. I disagreed fundamentally with his philosophy, but for reasons of friendship I never criticized it publicly. I do not like Schopenhauer's philosophy and I have not studied [Hans] Vaihinger sufficiently to express an opinion on him."

"I have not read the book by [Jakob] Mandelker to which you allude."

24562
24563

"I have not studied existentialism at all carefully but what I know of it makes me think that it is rubbish."

On verso of Hirsch's letter.

24564
24565

Pamphlet is titled "Desde la Bomba Atomica (con Rapidez Atomica) por la Justicia y la Paz a la Humanidad Universal".

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24567
24568
24569
24570
24571
24572
24573
24574
24575
24576

"First of all, individual ideas of that which is pleasurable vary. Sadism and masochism are common enough, and most 'normal' emotions draw on these impulses in varying degrees. The criterion I prefer is a commonsensical one. The task of ethical thought is to pursue the greatest happiness for the greatest number. How we conceive this will vary with people and with periods, and will form part of the social debate. Individuals who are at all original will, no doubt, be out of step with the notions of their contemporaries. This does not change my argument that the utilitarian criterion is the one I should wish to see generally accepted, however much individual applications of it differ."

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24578
24579
24580
24581
24582
24583
24584

Invoice for books and postage to Choi Ho for £1 sixteen shillings and twopence.

24585
24586

Re: the Lady Hoare Thalidomide Appeal.

24587

Offprint is titled "St. Anselm's Ontological Argument and Russell's Theory of Descriptions" by Hochberg; reprinted from The New Scholasticism, 33, 3 (July 1959).

24588
24589
24590
24591
24592
24593
24594
24595
24596

Re: Santayana.

On verso of Hoffman's letter.

24597
24598
24599
24600
24601

On verso of Hoffmann's letter.