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082			_a320.5 BER
100			_aE.Egne, Robert
245		0	_aBertrand Russell's best
260			_aLondon
260			_bRoutledge
260			_c2004
300			_a157p.
365			_dPND
520			_aIt is pleasant news that Professor Egner is publishing a revision of the book Bertrand Russell's Best. The skill and the impartiality with which he made his selections, producing, thereby a volume which one may hope can be read without pain and without excessive mental exertion, seem to me admirable. I should like to reiterate, however, what I said in The Preface to the volume edited by Professor Robert E. Egner and Mr Lester E. Denonn called The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell. I said there: I should not wish to be thought in earnest only when I am solemn.' The longer I have lived, the more I have come too suspect solemnity and to see in it - not always, but frequently - a cloak for a humbug. What is most lacking in the modern world is genial, good-natured tolerance; and what is most hostile to this is a harsh and dogmatic morality which condemns the majority of the human race as reprobates. Against solemnity, the best weapon is wit. Most other weapons produce only another dogmatic, sectarian solemnity. I have tried to avoid this danger, though I must confess that I have not always been successful in this endeavour.
650			_a"Russell,Bertrand"
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