Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and Nobel laureate. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had "never been any of these things, in any profound sense".He was born in Monmouthshire into one of the most prominent aristocratic families in the United Kingdom.