 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
In the year 1940 , I had a letter from a young American liberal criticizing my book Marriage and Morals on the ground that everything said in that book is now accepted by practically everybody, and that the superstitions I was attacking are virtually extinct. A few weeks later, as a result of legal proceedings, I was deprived of a professorship in New York on the explicit ground that Marriage and Marais was “lecherous, lewd, lascivious and obscene”. I was in consequence subjected for a time to an almost complete boycott throughout the United States.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 12：Superstitious Ethics, n.3
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