Wisdom Lingers
OWEVER impatient we become with the old, in theory the idea that the Old men play Nestor to the racé is conenial Beyond the néed or inclination @r compromise they speak the truth @& they know it. Filled with living they emerge from the more abstract interests Which may have held them for balf a lifetime and speak with a fullness and Precision which is pleasant. These reflections crossed my mind after listening to Bertrand Russell’s many talks over SYC. I noticed, too, that though others complained of his monotonous voice in the earlier Reith lectures, I liked its marked individuality. This won a willing ear despite the fact that in advising mankind to live the life of expéensivé impulses Lord Russell shows that he himself has never been driven by passions which, for their proper exPféssion, require something more inSpiting than the admonitions of the atoic. on
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 26
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149Wisdom Lingers New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 26
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