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| | Bertrand Russell |
 | | Henceforth, one of his primary aims was to inquire, with skeptical and parsimonious intent, "how much we can be said to know and with what degree of certainty or doubtfulness." |
 | | In the same year, against the wishes of his family, he married Alys Pearsall Smith, the sister of Logan Pearsall Smith (the author of Trivia) and a Quaker from Philadelphia with advanced views. |
 | | In the next two years he lectured in the United States on non-Euclidian geometry, traveled in Germany to study economics, was introduced to Marxism by the social democrats there, and, as a result, was appointed first lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. |
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