 Over the course of a long career, Russell also made important contributions to a broad range of other subjects, including  ethics,  politics, educational theory and religious studies, cheerfully ignoring Hooke’s admonition to the Royal Society against “meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick” (Kreisel 1973, 24). Generations of general readers have also benefited from his  popular writings on a wide variety of topics in both the humanities and the natural sciences. Like  Voltaire,  to whom he has been compared (Times of London 1970, 12), he wrote with style and wit and had enormous influence.