Reid's memoir covers life in a Scottish manse in the late nineteenth century, his schooling at the Leys in Cambridge before the first world war, and philosophical life in the inter-war period--with sketches of leading figures from Russell (whom he disliked) to Wittgenstein, Moore and Whitehead. And his memoir has a cast of ancillary characters from Harold Laski (the political theorist) to A.S. Neill (the educationalist) and Alfred Zimmern (one of the founders of UNESCO), not to mention a number of leading figures in the religious debates of the period. Louis Arnaud Reid was an influential...
Reid's memoir covers life in a Scottish manse in the late nineteenth century, his schooling at the Leys in Cambridge before the first world war, and p...
