ABSTRACT
We members of the Aristotelian Society are here tonight to say ‘Goodbye and thank you’ to that grand philosophical thinker, Bertrand Russell, who gave his first paper to this Society in 1896. 1 This is not an occasion for an exegetic commentary on the almost infinite variety of his thought, but rather one for concentrating our gratitudes on those three or four determining impulses by which his thinking has given to the philosophical thinking of all of us, quite irrespective of our particular opinions and specialities, much of its whole trajectory.
