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Title: The Independent
Year: 1849 (1840s)
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Publisher: New York : S.W. Benedict
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of reason in ethics and politics. Cam-bridge took pride in him and more than one American university has tried to get him. He had an engagementto lecture at Harvard this year and it has been rumoredthat he was likely to succeed to the chair left vacantlast September by the death of Professor Royce. But the British Ambassador at Washington notifiedthe president of Harvard last June that he would notbe allowed to come to America. Scotland Yard has noti-fied him that he will not be allowed to visit Scotland,Liverpool or the English coast towns. He has been dis-missed from the faculty of Trinity College and forbiddento continue his lectures on mathematical logic in Cam-bridge. He has been arrested and fined $500 because heexposed the brutal and illegal treatment of those who,from conscientious reasons, refused to serve in the army. The British War Office refused to permit him to givehis proposed course of lectures on the PhilosophicalPrinciples of Politics in the areas under their control
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Draum lor The Independent by W. C. Morris CHORUS OF KINGS. CZARS, STATESMEN. EDITORS, MUNITION MAKERS AND FINANCIERSON WITH THE WAR! ITS NONE OF WILSONS AFFAIR *1NANCIERS. January 8, 1917 THE INDEPENDENT 47 unless he would promise not to continue a propagandawhich if successful would in their opinion militate tosome extent against the effective prosecution of the war.Mr. Russell submitted a syllabus of his proposed lecturesand promised that there would be nothing about thediplomacy preceding the war, about conscientious ob-jections, about the kind of peace to be desired, or evenabout the general ethics of war, but more than this hewould not agree to. As he says: It is just as imperative a duty to me to fight tyranny athome as it is to others to fight against Germans abroad. Iwill not, on any consideration, surrender one particle ofspiritual liberty. Physical liberty can be taken from a man,but spiritual liberty is his birthright, of which all the armiesand governments of the world are

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