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Bertrand Russell
Russell's contributions to logic, epistemology, and the philosophy of mathematics established him as one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th century. To the general public, however, he was best known as a campaigner for peace and as a popular writer on social, political, and moral subjects. Russell played a significant part in the Leeds Convention in June 1917, a historic event which saw well over a thousand "anti-war socialists" gathered. -
Bertrand Russell on Eugenics to Alysias Pearsall Smith
"Thee might observe incidentally that if the State paid for child-bearing it might and ought to require a medical certificate that the parents were such as to give a reasonable result of a healthy child- this would afford a very good inducement to some sort of care for the race, and gradually as public opinion became educated by the law"- Bertrand Russell, on eugenics to Alys Pearsall Smith, 2 October 1894 .(Selected Letters, vol. 1, p. 128)