We never managed to learn the trick, and I think he was a little disappointed by our hesitations, not realizing that he had taught them to us himself,” ibid. My father dealt with this problem by a sort of intellectual conjuring trick: when he wanted to be indignant over evil, he temporarily put away objectivity in some other compartment of his mind. For it was always possible the enemy was right. But these things are not easy to combine fair-mindedness puzzled our wills and muddled our hopes, and left us unable to strike out boldly against any enemy, public or private. “My father’s scientific optimism was strong and he hoped tha we would share it, together with his dispassionate ability to see both sides of a question. ‘The sea, the stars, the night wind in waste places, mean more to me than even the human beings I love best, and I am conscious that human affection is to me at bottom an attempt to escape from the vain search for God’,” My Father, Bertrand Russell (HBJ 1975), 46-47. ‘My most profound feelings have remained always solitary and have found in human things no companionship,’ he wrote. “He never gave his whole heart to anyone, though he tried. Here are a few of her personal observations: Lady Katherine Tait was the only daughter of late Bertrand Russell.
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