Committed as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been worried with the standard concerns to which religious beliefs likewise resolves itself– concerns about guy’s location in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that include life after death, morality, flexibility, education, and sexual principles. “I am as strongly persuaded that religious beliefs do damage as I am that they are false,” Russell states in his Beginning, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle guy’s mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as1954 In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the extremely controversial “Bertrand Russell Case” of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared “unfit” to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York.
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