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frequently meeting with their extraordinary associates in the turbulent <> which "discussed aesthetic and philosophical questions in a spirit of agnosticism and were strongly influenced by G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903) and by A.N. Whitehead’s and Bertrand Russell’s Principia Mathematica (1910–13), in the light of which they searched for definitions of the good, the true, and the beautiful "

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Griffin explains that Bertrand Russell was a colleague and collaborator of Whitehead and a very close friend of Whitehead and his wife, Evelyn. Griffin retells Russell's story of how, one evening, "they found Evelyn Whitehead in the middle of what appeared to be a dangerous and acutely painful angina attack. ... [but] It seems that she suffered fron a psychosomatic disorder ... [and] the danger was illusory." Griffin posits that Russell exagerated the drama of her illness, and that both Evelyn and Russell were habitually given to melodrama.