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This treatise analyzes the origins of some of the most fundamental philosophical problems that have beset philosophers in English-speaking countries in this century. Philosophers, it hypothesizes, are treating symptoms of philosophical ills whose causes lie buried in history. Substantial linguistic hurdles now block access to Gottlob Frege's thought and so to the nature of Bertrand Russell's. Misleading translations of key concepts like intention, content, presentation, idea, meaning and concept have severed analytical philosophy from its roots. The author argues that once linguistic and historical barriers are removed, Edmund Husserl's critical study of Frege's logic in his 1891 "Philosophy of Arithmetic" provides important insights into issues in philosophy. Like Frege, Husserl wanted to overcome problems inherent in the logic of his time and phenomenology was his attempt to solve many of the problems that bothered Frege and Russell. The author supports her conclusions with an analysis of Frege's, Husserl's and Russell's works, including "Principia Mathematica". She tries to re-establish the links that existed between English and continental thought at the turn of the century and to show Husserl's expertise as a philosopher of mathematics and logic who counted Cantor, Hilbert and Zermelo among his friends.