'What kind of an Idiot you are can easily be seen by reading some of your so-called philosophy. The other day I read something in a Swiss-German Newspaper you evidently have said: "We are now living in a period with three revolutions ahead of us: the fight of youth against old age; the fight of poorness against richness and the fight of the fool against intelligency ..."
Dear Sir, (August 30, 1958)
There is a kind of idiot that you have not considered. It is the kind which believes what it reads in the newspapers. I never made any such statement as you quote.
Yours truly
Bertrand Russell
Source: Dear Bertrand Russell, 1969
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