A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, "Unpopular Essays" is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to 'combat! the growth in Dogmatism', on first publication in 1950 it met with critical acclaim and a wide readership and has since become one of his most accessible and ...
A classic collection of Bertrand Russell's more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, "Unpopular Essays" is one of Russell's most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to 'combat! the growth in Dogmatism', on first publication in 1950 it met with critical acclaim and a wide readership and has since become one of his most accessible and popular books.
By enlarging the objects of his thoughts it supplies an antidote to the anxieties and anguish of the present, and makes possible the nearest approach to serenity that is available to a sensitive mind in our tortured and uncertain world. (查看原文)
We gladly place her as a spiritual force; we acknowledge and reverence her as the 'angelic part of humanity'; we give her superiority in all graces and refinements we are capable of as human beings; we wish her to retain all her winsome womanly ways (查看原文)
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1 有用 Jackie 2013-02-14 00:20:21
经你提醒，我试读了J.S.Mill的文字，文风的确和你的一样的舒服。真希望也有如你们这般的文风。
0 有用 Han 2010-11-30 23:42:53
Mr. Gladstone那段也太可爱了吧！把Browning损的。写什么都这么有趣，这么清晰！
0 有用 Spock 2012-09-08 11:26:13
赞。很犀利的讽刺，深刻，充满同情心和对世界前景的担忧
0 有用 magnus 2019-07-20 05:06:05
GRE雅思写作宝典
0 有用 Stephy Bear 2011-08-08 08:11:53
用很幽默的笔触写很沉重的话题