罗素自传（第三卷）

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• This book is to be published while the great issues that now divide the world remain undecided. As yet, and for some time to come, the world must be one of doubt. It must as yet be suspended equally between hope and fear. It is likely that I shall die before the issue is decided – I do not know whether my last words should be: The bright day is done And we are for the dark, or, as I sometimes allow myself to hope, The world’s great age begins anew, The golden years return. . . . Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. I have done what I could to add my small weight in an attempt to tip the balance on the side of hope, but it has been a puny ef... (查看原文)

  GoodMorning 2013-09-14 14:19:03

• My views on the future are best expressed by Shelley in the following poem: O cease! must hate and death return? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, O might it die or rest at last! Final stanza of ‘Hellas’ (478. 1096–1101). (查看原文)

  GoodMorning 2013-09-14 14:23:38

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