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Why I am not a Christian, and other essays on religion and related subjects / Edited, with an appendix on the "Bertrand Russell case," by Paul Edwards.

Author/creator Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
Other author/creatorRussell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 inscriber.
Other author/creatorTaylor, Peter, 1917-1994, former owner.
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Simon and Schuster, 1957.
Descriptionxvii, 266 pages ; 21 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Why I am not a Christian -- Has religion made useful contributions to civilization? -- What I believe -- Do we survive death? -- Seems, Madam? Nay, it is -- A free man's worship -- On Catholic and Protestant skeptics -- Life in the Middle Ages -- The fate of Thomas Paine -- Nice people -- The new generation -- Our sexual ethics -- Freedom and the colleges -- Can religion cure our troubles? -- Religion and morals -- Appendix: How Bertrand Russell was prevented from teaching at the College of the City of New York.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy inscribed "To Gene. To a better understanding of the whole fat universe, your old friend, Bertrand Russell" on front fly-leaf. In original dust jacket. Peter Taylor name label inside front cover. Stuart Wright Peter Taylor Book Collection #262. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Local noteLittle-7019
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy gift of Stuart Wright, 2014
LCCN 57010982

Available Items

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Joyner General Stacks BL2780 .R87 1957 ✔ Available Place Hold
Joyner Stuart Wright Collection BL2780 .R87 1957 ✔ Available Request Material