Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 137)

xix, [1], 390, [6] pp. Includes new introduction by the author, along with his personally selected contents, which include A Free Man's Worship and Mysticism and Logic (both printed in full); significant chapters from Education and the Good Life, Proposed Roads to Freedom, Why Men Fight, The ABC of Relativity, and much other material. "Upon the completion of his Principia Mathematica, in collaboration with Dr. Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell reached the conclusion that little could be achieved by writings addressed exclusively to specialists. Abstract pursuits gave way to a quest for a better way of life, where co-operation, not competition, is the road to happiness. These essays reveal the quintessence of Bertrand Russell's enlightened philosophy. They are for readers who are conscious of the social and political problems of our age and who seek solutions under the guidance of science and a humane philosophy."