1 4, Broad Street
Oxford March 14, (1921) My dear Russell Yes I think you must be right. It is certainly a
distressing suggestion. I think by the way that the line is Dust has closed Helen's eye not eyes. At least I have always quoted it as eye. I cannot
look it up for I have no edition of Nash who I think wrote it. I hope you will do that essay on Unity & Culture. I
will send you the final chapter of My four years on the subject.
Your essay need not be finished for months & need not be long. My
sister will know when it should be done & how long it should be. I
will let you know. If we can present this one idea from many sides
we might effect the future of Ireland! In my essay I would go more
into details than I can in the last chapter. You could start off by
referring to your essay in the Express & so affirm the independence
of your thought. In my Four Years it comes after chapters on Madam
Blavatsky,Morris,Macgregor,Henley & so on & will come as a logical
deduction. The idea is much more obviously a deduction from all past
work of intellectual Ireland. The idea has been forced again into
my mind after a long interval of apparent individualism by my present
philosophy. I find something of the kind is stirring among the young
men here, --an indian called Mallik is having great influence --& here
philosophy is now the one great intellectual influence,politics being
dead. I do not yet understand the Oxford thought on the subject
except that it is more metaphysical than ours. Mallik I have met but
I have not met him enough. I hear also of an American who has left
I know some similar thought. Macdougal was I think the first source.