“I am haunted,” the philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote, by “fear of the family ghost, which seems to seize on me with clammy invisible hands to avenge my desertion of its tradition of gloom.” Russell traced this fear to his family’s efforts to persuade him, when he was a young man, that he shouldn’t have children because of “madness in the blood.”
Fear of the Family Ghost
Fear of the Family Ghost
Fear of the Family Ghost
“I am haunted,” the philosopher Bertrand Russell once wrote, by “fear of the family ghost, which seems to seize on me with clammy invisible hands to avenge my desertion of its tradition of gloom.” Russell traced this fear to his family’s efforts to persuade him, when he was a young man, that he shouldn’t have children because of “madness in the blood.”