During the war, the holders of power in all countries found it necessary to bribe the populations into cooperation by unusual concessions. Wage-earners were allowed a living wage, Hindus were told they were men and brothers, women were given the vote, and young people were allowed to enjoy those innocent pleasures of which the old, in the name of morality, always wish to rob them. The war being won, the victors set to work to deprive their tools of advantages temporarily conceded.

In 1896 he taught German social democracy at the London School of Economics where he also lectured on the science of power in the autumn of 1937. However his books were sold at auction to raise the money. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the British Humanist Association and President of Cardiff Humanists until his death.

Bertrand Arthur William Russell 3rd Earl Russell OM FRS (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher logician mathematician historian and social critic. Whitehead Principia Mathematica an attempt to ground mathematics on logic. ".