Bertrand Russell - Message To Future Generations (1959)

“And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.“ Bertrand Russell in this capture In 1959, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), the Nobel Prize-winning philosopher, mathematician and peace activist was just short of his 87th birthday, when he gave wide-ranging interviews to the BBC and the CBC. In this capture, Russell giving life lessons — lessons about critical thinking, love and tolerance — to a generation living 1,000 years in the future. Interviewer: John Freeman. Excerpt from the video “Bertrand Russell - Interview (“Face to Face“, 1959)“. In full length here: Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitt