russell-j

Bertrand Russell: On Education, especially in early childhood, 1926 ...

The substitution of this driving-force for the rod is one of the great advances of our time. ... Here, again, we are met by a tradition urging the cheap and easy way of ... a reflex connected with pain, partly an act performed in the pursuit of pleasure. ... Men like fly-fishing, because it is difficult ; they will not shoot a bird sitting, ...