EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY
" RUSSELL’S is undeniably one of the great minds of od time. Mt has always been impelled by a passionate and relentless curiosity and a hatred of cruelty and injustice...An_ aristocratic gadfly, he has never for. any Teason hesitated to. speak out: on any issue‘that engaged him." This was part of Life’s tribute to Bertrand Russell .when he turned 80 last year-a rather handsome one after it had said that in attacking the United States for its hysterical attitude toward the, world, crisis he, was "probably wrong, ane) at "least wrongheaded." ° Bertrand Russell had something to say himself, about himself; on the. big occasion. In the BBC Home Service he
looked back over his life’s work and reflected on the successes and failures of the aims he set himself as a young man, A transcription of this talk is to be heard from National stations of the NZBS during the next few months. It will be broadcast from 3YC at 8.38 p-m..on Friday, March 20. One of the world’s best known philosophers, Bertrand Russell says: "I wanted, on the one ‘hand, to find out whether anything could be known; and, on the other hand, to do whatever might be possible towards creating a happier world," In Reflections on Being Eighty he discusses the development of these two objects and their ultimate union. He sums up: "I have lived in the pursuit of a vision, both personal and social. Personal: to .care for what is noble, for what is beautiful, for what is gentle; to allow! moments of insight to give wisdom at more mundane times. Social: to see in imagination the society that is to be created, where individuals grow freely, and where hate and greed and envy die because there is nothing to nourish them. These things I believe, and the world, for all its horrors, has left me unshaken,"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 17
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312EIGHTIETH BIRTHDAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 17
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