MOORE

In his famous essay 'My early beliefs', written in September 1938, Keynes bears witness to the impact of Moore's Principia Ethica (1993), first printed in 1903, on his early beliefs: 'I went up to Cambridge at Michaelmas 1902, and Moore's Principia Ethica came out at the end of my first year. I have never heard of the present generation having read it. But, of course, its effect on us, and the talk which preceded and followed it, dominated, and perhaps still dominate, everything else' (JMK X: 435). He continues: 'It seems to me looking back, that this religion of ours was a very good one to grow up under. It remains nearer the truth than any other that I know, with less irrelevant extraneous matter and nothing to be ashamed of . . . It is still my religion under the surface' (JMK X: 442).