title: Unpopular Essays
author:  Bertrand Russell 
description: <strong>`Russell is as incapable of being dull as he is of being shallow.'</strong> - <em>The Observer</em><br /><br /><strong>`An intellectual treat ... '</strong> - <em>Financial Times</em>
zlib_text: Philosophical Essays
  ‘Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater
  claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other
  branch of learning . . . I believe that the time has now
  arrived when this unsatisfactory state of things can be
  brought to an end’
  – Bertrand Russell
  ‘We have nothing but praise for these essays. It is rare
  for a man of great learning to come down into the
  philosophical arena and dispute with such licidity, and
  above all with such sympathy, the views that he is
  criticising.’
  The Oxford Magazine
  ‘In the manner of self-restraint, clear statement and
  rigorous argument these essays are models of what
  such essays should be.’
  The Glasgow Herald
  ‘A serious and important contribution to philosophical
  literature.’
  The Hibbert Journal
  
  Bertrand
  Russell
  Philosophical Essays
  
  This edition ﬁrst published in 1910
  by Longmans, Green & Co.
  First published in Routledge Classics 2009
  by Routledge
  2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN
  Simultaneously published in th