Bertrand Russell (1907) Portrait from The Bertrand Russell Gallery

The Elements of Ethics , by Bertrand Russell, was first published in 1910, in his Philosophical Essays . (It was composed from several of his previous articles; he describes its provenance in a prefatory note.) This online edition is based on the public domain text as it appears in the 1994 Routledge paperback edition of the 1966 re-issue of Philosophical Essays (ISBN 0-415-10579-X).