第2巻第4章 再婚(承前)
1922年に中国に関する著書(The Problem of China)を,1923年に(妻のドーラと共著で)『産業文明の前途』(The Prospects of Industrial Civilization)を出したが,どちらもたいしてお金にならなかった。それよりもよく売れたのは,1923年の『原子のABC』(The ABC of Atoms)と1925年の『相対性理論のABC』(The ABC of Relativity)という2冊の小著,それから,1924年の『イカルス,即ち科学の将来』(Icarus, or the Future of Science)と1925年の『私の信条』(What I Believe)という2冊の小著であった。1924年には,アメリカヘの講演旅行でかなりの収入があった。しかし,1926年に教育に関する本を出すまでは,どちらかというと貧乏(な状態)が続いた。その後1932年までは,特に1929年の『結婚と道徳』(Marriage and Morals)と1930年の『幸福論』(The Conquest of Happiness/『幸福の獲得』)がよく売れたため,経済的に(金銭上)豊かであった。この数年の間の著作のほとんどは一般向きの(通俗的な)ものであり,またそれはお金を稼ぐために執筆したものであった。しかし,より専門的な著作も何冊か執筆した。(たとえば)1925年に『プリンキピア・マテマティカ』の新版(Principia Mathematica, 2nd ed.)を出し,その新版には多くの増補をした。1927年には『物質の分析』(The Analysis of Matter)を出版したが,この本はある意味では獄中で書き始めて1921年に出版した『精神の分析』(The Analysis of Matter)の姉妹書と言える。 私はまた,1922年と1923年(の2度),チェルシー区から,国会議員選挙に立候補した。またドーラが1924年に立候補した。 |
v.2,chap.4: Second Marriage It must not be supposed that life during these six years from the autumn of 1921 to the autumn of 1927 was all one long summer idyll. Parenthood had made it imperative to earn money. The purchase of two houses had exhausted almost all the capital that remained to me. When I returned from China I had no obvious means of making money, and at first I suffered considerable anxiety. I took whatever odd journalistic jobs were offered me: while my son John was being born, I wrote an article on Chinese pleasure in fireworks, although concentration on so remote a topic was difficult in the circumstances. In 1922 I published a book on China, and in 1923 (with my wife Dora) a book on The Prospects of Industrial Civilization, but neither of these brought much money. I did better with two small books, The A.B.C. of Atoms (1923) and The ABC of Relativity (1925), and with two other small books, Icarus or The Future of Science (1924) and What I Believe (1925 ) . In 1924 I earned a good deal by a lecture tour in America. But I remained rather poor until the book on education in 1926. After that, until 1933, I prospered financially, especially with Marriage and Morals (1929) and The Conquest of Happiness (1930) . Most of my work during these years was popular, and was done in order to make money, but I did also some more technical work. There was a new edition of Principia Mathematica in 1925, to which I made various additions; and in 1927 I published The Analysis of Matter, which is in some sense a companion volume to The Analysis of Mind, begun in prison and published in 1921. I also stood for Parliament in Chelsea in 1922 and 1923, and Dora stood in 1924.
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