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🔴 📖 **The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell**

_"In this work, Russell explores fundamental questions regarding the nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, interrogating what we can genuinely know about the world around us."_

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Useless quote for 30 Sep:

"Every nation believes that its enemies were the aggressors, and may make war again in a few years unless they are utterly defeated."

~Bertrand Russell, 1916
(from Russell's open letter to US President Woodrow Wilson, published Dec 1916; Source:
"The Autobiography Of Bertrand Russell 1914–1944" (Boston MA: Little, Brown 1968), archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.64782/page/n31/mode/2up)

"The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other."

– Bertrand Russell, Freedom, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen, Harcourt Brace, 1940.

Edit: Answer seems to be Willima James Sidis, though I'm having trouble turning up a citation.

I'm trying to remember the name of the young prodigy who'd been bullied as a child, somewhere in the US (Cleveland sticks in my mind though I may be wrong on that), took refuge in the library, read Principia Mathematica, and corresponded with Bertrand Russelll over errata. Russell mistook the youth for a maths professor initially.

Obviously early 20th century.

Ring any bells for anyone?