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Query:	Source of Russell Quote
Author:	Stephen R. Anderson
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Linguistic LingField(s):	General Linguistics
Summary:	I received many responses to my inquiry about this famous quotation, but virtually all of them were either references to other places where it's been quoted or requests for the answer if I found it. Someone else re-posted my question on another list (HOPOS-L, History of the Philosophy of Science), though, which elicited the answer from Malthe Nielsen : > In ''Human Knowledge - Its Scope And Limits (George Allen and Unwin Ltd., > London, 1948) Russell writes (page 74): > ''A dog cannot relate his autobiography; however eloquently he may bark, he > cannot tell you that his parents were honest though poor.'' Unless Russell said more or less the same thing elsewhere in different form, most of the citations of this remark that I've found (and I've found lots - all without a source beyond ''Russell'') are more or less imprecise. - Steve Anderson

LL Issue:	12.2172
Date Posted:	06-Sep-2001
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