 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
but Kate was only fifteen, and this seemed young for the University. I made enquiries among friends as to which school in Los Angeles had the highest academic standard, and there was one that they all concurred in recommending, so I sent her there. But I found that there was only one subject taught that she did not already know, and that was the virtues of the capitalist system. I was therefore compelled, in spite of her youth, to send her to the University.
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Russell gave a series of lectures on ‘Language and Fact’ in 1938 (note: the content was published as An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth in 1940), followed by a lecture on the same subject at the University of Chicago. He then moved to California in March 1939 to take up a professorship at the University of California, Los Angeles (lectures began in the autumn). Then, a short time later, the Second World War broke out. Immediately before the above quote, the following is written.
"In the summer of 1939, John and Kate came to visit us for the period of the school holidays. A few days after they arrived the War broke out, and it became impossible to send them back to England. I had to provide for their further education at a moment's notice. John was seventeen, and I entered him at the University of California, but Kate was only fifteen, and ...".