Synchronicity or What . . . ?

I know it may appear contrived, but I assure you it is purely fortuitous. A few hours after making my last posting concerning the dangers of abstract reasoning unbalanced by common sense or intuition, I came across the following quotation. It is by Gerald Brenan, a once-famous author on things Spanish, and relates to Bertrand Russell:

' . . . his mind and work can be seen as split into two separate compartments. In one he is the logician and philosopher, the man of pure intellect who is completely cut off from all feelings. In the other he is the political writer, educationalist, teacher, prophet, moved by generous indignation at the follies and cruelties of the world, but also by a hankering for public esteem and applause . . . But when engaged in this way he was severely handicapped. Pure reason is not a good instrument for plotting a course in politics . . . though he was not lacking in the faculty of intuition he rarely gave it full play but drove his logical judgement through the maze of inter-related circumstances, simplifying everything that lay in its path till its conclusions no longer corresponded to reality . . .'

The quotation is from the second volume (Bertrand Russell, The Ghost of Madness 1921-1970) of the biography by Ray Monk, which is to be highly recommended.