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100 1 _aRussell, Bertrand,
_d1872-1970
245 1 0 _aFree Thought and Official Propaganda
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2014
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aConway Memorial Lecture: 1922
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Thought_and_Official_Propaganda
500 _aRelease date is 2014-02-16
508 _aProduced by Sean (scribe_for_hire@yahoo.com), based on page images made available by the Internet Archive (http://archive.org/details/freethoughtoffic00russiala).
520 _a"Free Thought and Official Propaganda" by Bertrand Russell is a speech delivered in 1922. Russell examines how governments suppress freedom of expression through education, propaganda, and economic control. He argues against blind certainty and advocates for rational doubt, contrasting William James's "will to believe" with his own "will to doubt." Drawing from personal experiences of censorship and discrimination, Russell demonstrates how political establishments punish dissenting voices, whether religious, political, or scientific, and warns that intellectual freedom exists nowhere without restriction. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aFree thought
653 _aLiberalism
653 _aPropaganda
830 0 _aConway Memorial Lecture: 1922
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44932
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