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1. Three passions governed the author's life, searches for love and knowledge, and pity. He was an orphan. His parents had held advanced opinions.
   
   Bertrand Russell was raised at Pembroke Lodge by his grandmother. Her morality was that of a Victorian Puritan. Bertrand's brother Frank longed to be loved, but he was a bully. Bertrand believed he owed to the Stanley family, his mother's side, vigor, good health, and good spirits. To his father's side he believed he owed shyness, sensitiveness, and metaphysics.
   
   He fell in love with Euclid at age eleven. From that point until age thirty eight, through the PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA, mathematics was his great passion. Russell attended Cambridge in 1890 with a minor scholarship. Cambridge had been chosen for reason of his great interest in mathematics. He met Charles and Bob Trevelyan when he sat for the scholarship examination. He felt that Charles Percy Sanger had a perfect combination of penetrating intellect and warm affection. In addition to Sanger, he came to know Crompton and Theodore Llewelyn Davies, Ellis McTaggart, Roger Fry, and Lowes Dickinson. Russell never felt that his having been schooled at home was a disadvantage.
   
   In his third year at Cambridge he met G.E. Moore who fulfilled his ideal of genius. Russell's favorite group at Cambridge was the society known as The Apostles. Whitehead was a member and had recommended that the mathematics papers of Sanger and Russell, prepared during the scholarship examination, be read by the faculty. Bertrand was elected to the society in 1892. He knew Maynard Keynes through his father and Lytton Strachey through his mother. Lady Strachey had immense vigor. Lytton was brought up to be a writer.
   
   Russell fell in love with Alys Smith who lived near his Uncle Rollo. He came of age May 1993. His love for Alys grew. His family was not pleased by his infatuation. He went to live with Alys's family while working on his fellowship dissertation on non-Euclidean geometry. He married Alys in December 1894. Her family had been Philadelphia Quakers. Her brother was Logan Pearsall Smith and her sister was Mary Costelloe.
   
   Ward and Whitehead were the readers of Russell's dissertation and he was elected a Fellow. He read the work of Georg Cantor at his wife's parents place because the couple's flat was too noisy. Subsequently Russell fell out of love with his wife. He discerned in her traits he disliked in her brother and her mother.
   
   In 1910 with PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA completed he felt at loose end. Volunteering for the Liberal cause he met Philip Morrell and Ottoline Morrell. Ottoline was very tall and had dark red marmalade colored hair, not dyed. In 1913 he began a friendship with Joseph Conrad.