ABSTRACT

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970) was the foremost British philosopher of the twentieth century. He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Russell was among the Garsington group during and after the First World War, and may have been partly behind the figure of Scogan in Crome Yellow. Russell in fact objected to Huxley putting forward seriously, through Scogan, ideas which Russell says he discussed jokingly at Garsington (Clark, p. 224). Philip Thody suggests that Russell's The Scientific Outlook was a source for Brave New World: 'Indeed, so much of Brave New World resembles The Scientific Outlook that one wonders at times if Huxley put any original ideas into his book' (Aldous Huxley, pp. 50-1). The title of the typescript of the review was 'A Manipulator's Paradise,' changed in the printed version to 'We Don't Want to be Happy.' Indicative sub-headings are here omitted. See Intro­ duction, p. 16.