Zeno
08-13-2004, 01:23 PM
For weekend reading:
Essay on Rubbish (http://www.luminary.us/russell/intellectual_rubbish.html)
A teaser from the essay:
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And we may enjoy the perplexity of the South American Jesuit who wondered how the sloth could have traveled, since the Flood, all the way from Mount Ararat to Peru-a journey which its extreme tardiness of locomotion rendered almost incredible. A wise man will enjoy the goods of which there is a plentiful supply, and of intellectual rubbish he will find an abundant diet, in our own age as in every other.
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This essay by B. Russell was written, I think, just before the end of WWII. The essay was published 1950 in a small book titled Unpopular Essays where it consumes a token 30 pages. Recent happenings in this best of all possible worlds caused me to reread this most eloquent essay, one of my favorites by Russell. I post it with the hope that others may also find it enjoyable and timely.
-Zeno
Essay on Rubbish (http://www.luminary.us/russell/intellectual_rubbish.html)
A teaser from the essay:
[ QUOTE ]
And we may enjoy the perplexity of the South American Jesuit who wondered how the sloth could have traveled, since the Flood, all the way from Mount Ararat to Peru-a journey which its extreme tardiness of locomotion rendered almost incredible. A wise man will enjoy the goods of which there is a plentiful supply, and of intellectual rubbish he will find an abundant diet, in our own age as in every other.
[/ QUOTE ]
This essay by B. Russell was written, I think, just before the end of WWII. The essay was published 1950 in a small book titled Unpopular Essays where it consumes a token 30 pages. Recent happenings in this best of all possible worlds caused me to reread this most eloquent essay, one of my favorites by Russell. I post it with the hope that others may also find it enjoyable and timely.
-Zeno