Your quote is Russell criticizing the later Wittgenstein work, while praising the earlier work. It is a known thing that his late work was something of a repudi

Your quote is Russell criticizing the later Wittgenstein work, while praising the earlier work. It is a known thing that his late work was something of a repudiation of his early work. And that’s not mentioning that Russell was literally the person that recognized Wittgenstein’s genius and brought him into academia. “He was perhaps the most perfect example I known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense, and dominating. He had a kind of purity which I have never known equalled except by G.E.Moore.” - Russell in his autobiography, about Wittgenstein Your comment seems to not understand this distinction, which to me indicates that you aren’t actually familiar with Wittgenstein’s work at all.