11 OCTOBER 1957, Page 5

Russell Intelligence

l'IGeNTERAL it seems to me that Russell is at his most reffective when he is basing his argument on an It.istorical indictment of .Christian belief and prac- !Ice. • • - This I believe to be a sound historical Judgment.

Philip Toynbce in the Observer, October 6.

W4ILE RUSSELL is a great mathematician and Philosopher he seems not merely to be no historian for also to be without any sense of history or feeling tor it.

Roger Lloyd in the Sunday Times, October 6.