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Tonight I'll be reading the opening to a 1918 collection of essays titled Mysticism

and Logic by Bertrand Russell. Russell, a Nobel Prize winner, is one of the world's best known authorities on logic.

In it, he challenges the romantic mysticism of the 19th century, positing instead his theory of logical atomism. Let's get cozy.

get cozy.

close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now. Now, take a few deep breaths. Mysticism and logic, or the attempt to conceive the world as a whole by means of thought,

has been developed from the first by the union and conflict of two very different human impulses

the one urging men towards mysticism

the other urging them towards science.

Some men have achieved greatness through one of these impulses alone, others through the other alone. others,

in Hume, for example, the scientific impulse

reigns quite unchecked,

while in Blake a strong hostility to science coexist with profound mystic

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