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Bertrand Russell, despite his immense erudition, is an everyman and every-woman philosopher. He's clear, engaging, and readable. Although Russell does the majority of his early work (along with his coach and colleague Alfred North Whitehead) in mathematics, he had an enormously extensive range of hobbies - from politics to sex education for the young. The next two essays - "Mysticism and Logic" and "Mathematics and the Metaphysicians" - provide listeners with a glance into Russell's thinking and, in turn, illuminates us about these profound subjects. Despite the fact that Russell is a seasoned skeptic, he is not blind to how spiritual sentiments and feelings play a vital role in our day-to-day lives. This is perhaps best summarized by Russell when he creates "The metaphysical creed, I will maintain, is a mistaken outcome of the sentiment, although this sentiment, as colouring and informing all the thoughts and feelings, is the inspirer of whatever is most beneficial in Man. Even the careful and patient inspection of fact by knowledge, which seems the antithesis of the mystic's swift certainty, may be fostered and nourished by that very soul of reverence where mysticism lives and goes." Bertrand Russell remains a beacon of enlightenment for those wanting to better understand the world through reason and logic and love.
