Bertrand Russell, Ideas that Have Harmed Mankind (1946).
The Future of Mankind If we compare the present with the past, if we trace events at all epochs to their causes, if we examine the elements of human growth, we find that Nature has raised us to what we are, not by fixed laws, but by provisional expedients, and that the principle which in one age.It is in this context that we have to hazard an assessment regarding the future of mankind in the age of science. All initiatives on disarmament hitherto have drawn blank practically, and as things stand today nothing sensational is likely to be achieved in at least the near future. It is a pity that the grave issue is being taken up.Russell discuses three possibilities about “The Future of Mankind.” According to him, one is the complete extinction of human life on earth, the second is that human life will be reduced to barbarism and the final is that there will be a world government that will control all nations and countries.
Essay. I generally consider that the future of mankind looks rather unpromising due to the damages that technological advances, overpopulation and environmental problems have already caused and it will probably continue to cause to human race in the future.In public, as in private life, the important thing is tolerance and kindliness, without the presumption of a superhuman ability to read the future. Instead of calling this essay 'Ideas that have harmed mankind', I might perhaps have called it simply 'Ideas have harmed mankind', for, seeing that the future cannot be foretold and that there is an.
Bertrand Russell unpopular essays (Future of Mankind),,,Russell as a Great pacifist,Optimist and Humanist Russell surely disproves the common established notion about philosopher, that, they are absent-minded and always busy their heads in making speculation, when he meditates on the possibilities regarding “The Future of Mankind”.
