Broad on "Practical" Philosophy

From "War thoughts in peace time", a lecture delivered in 1931 and reprinted in Broad's Religion, Philosophy and Psychic Research (Routledge, 1953). Also available here.

"... if there is any practical return which a professional philosopher can make to the community which pays him so handsomely for doing such pleasant work in such agreeable surroundings, it is surely that of clearing up confused ideas and pointing out specious fallacies."