Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 21
“Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.”
Source: 1910s, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays http://archive.org/stream/mysticism00russuoft/mysticism00russuoft_djvu.txt (1918), Ch. 1: Mysticism and Logic
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