The Reconstruction of Intellectual Internationalism after the War

Abstract

Occasionally new writings by Bertrand Russell come to light too late co be edited in their proper place in The Collected Papers ofBertrand Russell and, if they were published, recorded in A Bibliography ofBertrand Russell. Such was the case with his memorandum circulated to the Council of Newnham College in 1909, which was discovered after the publication of Volume 12, Contemplation and Action, 1902-14. 1 Such is also the case wim a manuscript with which he answered a request of the Stockholm newspaper, Svemka Dagbladet, and which was published on 18 July 1915. was no clue in the Russell Archives that Russell was asked to make the contribution. The manuscript turned up only in 1997 and was acquired too late for inclusion in Volume 13, Prophecy and Dissent, 1914-16. Inserted at the last moment in mat volume it might have been numbered 26a, or perhaps 29a, and CIp8a in me Bibliography. In any case, it is the next writing to be composed after Russell's wellknown essay, On Justice in War-Time: an Appeal (Q the Intellectuals of Europe (CI5.18). That essay decried the lack of that very internationalism among intellectuals which Russell looks to in the newly found manuscript. There is no reason to expect an unusual degree of humane feeling from professors; bur some pride of rationality, some unwillingness to let judgment be enslaved by brutal passions, we might have hoped to find. But we should have hoped in vain (Papers 13: 176). International progress was not discernible in that direction during a war that was.to become much fiercer before it was over. However, Russell's friend, C. K. Ogden, editor of The Cambridge Magazine, instiruced a section in his journal devoted to quoting or otherwise reponing