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BERTRAND RUSSELL

MYSTICISM AND LOGIC

AND OTHER ESSAYS

_LONDON_ GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD RUSKIN HOUSE MUSEUM STREET

MYSTICISM AND LOGIC AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY BERTRAND RUSSELL

_The ABC of Relativity_ _The Analysis of Matter_ _Human Society in Ethics and Politics_ _The Impact of Science on Society_ _New Hopes for a Changing World_ _Authority and the Individual_ _Human Knowledge_ _History of Western Philosophy_ _The Principles of Mathematics_ _Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy_ _The Analysis of Mind_ _Our Knowledge of the External World_ _An Outline of Philosophy_ _The Philosophy of Leibniz_ _An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth_ _Logic and Knowledge_ _The Problems of Philosophy_ _Principia Mathematica_

_Common Sense and Nuclear Warfare_ _Why I am Not a Christian_ _Portraits from Memory_ _My Philosophical Development_ _Unpopular Essays_ _Power_ _In Praise of Idleness_ _The Conquest of Happiness_ _Sceptical Essays_ _The Scientific Outlook_ _Marriage and Morals_ _Education and the Social Order_ _On Education_

_Freedom and Organization_ _Principles of Social Reconstruction_ _Roads to Freedom_ _Practice and Theory of Bolshevism_

_Satan in The Suburbs_ _Nightmares of Eminent Persons_

_First published as "Philosophical Essays"_ _October 1910_ _Second Edition as "Mysticism and Logic"_ _December 1917_ _Third Impression_ _April 1918_ _Fourth Impression_ _February 1919_ _Fifth Impression_ _October 1921_ _Sixth Impression_ _August 1925_ _Seventh Impression_ _January 1932_ _Eighth Impression_ _1949_ _Ninth Impression_ _1950_ _Tenth Impression_ _1951_ _Eleventh Impression_ _1959_

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