 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
We had decided that during the early years of our married life, we would see a good deal of foreign countries, and accordingly we spent the first three months of 1895 in Berlin. I went to the university, where I chiefly studied economics. I continued to work at my Fellowship dissertation (on the foundations of geometry). We went to concerts three times a week, and we began to know the Social Democrats, who were at that time considered very, wicked.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.１, chap. 5: First marriage, 1967
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Russell married Alice, an American woman five years his senior, on 13 December 1894 (when Russell was 22). (Russell's parents died when Russell was very young, but when he reached the age of 21, he was able to use his parent's inheritance as an adult.)
Russell decided at a young age to use his late father's inheritance to live on writing alone, without working anywhere 'in principle'. He convinced himself that while unearned income was bad, it would not be so bad to 'use his inheritance' to study for the benefit of humanity, without turning his back on the truth for the sake of money (for a living). He thought he could make a living by writing, lecturing and so on, so he did not worry too much about it.
He did not inherit his grandmother's estate, but donated it all to Cambridge University and various educational causes.
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