In 1916 Bertrand Russell was prosecuted and fined for publishing
(in defence of a conscientious objector) 'statements likely to
prejudice the recruiting and discipline of His Majesty's forces.'
He was almost immediately afterwards dismissed from his Lectureship
at Trinity College, Cambridge, by the College Council. This
expulsion provoked a storm of protest and the true facts of the
case became obscured by misconceptions, prejudices and uninformed
gossip, to the discredit of the College. In 1942, therefore G. H.
Hardy the mathematician printed for private circulation to another
generation of Fellows at Trinity a full account of the incident in
an attempt to explain what really happened. This is now made
public. Besides provoking an authoritative record of a celebrated
but misinterpreted episode in Russell's eventful academic career,
this document contains interesting evidence about attitudes to
pacifism in the First World War and in particular about the
sympathies of such distinguished colleagues and contemporaries of
Russell as Cornford, Housman, McTaggart and Whitehead.
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