![]() ![]() ![]() It was a small academy devoted to promoting ‘ free-thinking, ‘ that is to say, atheist humanism. Born in London in 1923, she pursued a training course at her parents’ innovative school in Beacon Hill. The only child of Russell was Katharine Tait. ![]() The title was My Father-Bertrand Russell, by Katharine Tait. Several years ago, while browsing in a bookstore in the east, a book with Russell’s photograph on the dust cover caught my eye. It was a privilege to know him, and I thank God he was my father.” “He was the most fascinating man I have ever known, the only man I ever loved, the greatest man I shall ever meet, the wittiest, the gayest, the most charming. She begins by remembering her earliest history in London and ends the book with the following words: He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1959 on the basis that he was “a defender of humanity and freedom of thought.”Ī friend recently suggested that I collect a copy of My Father, Bertrand Russell that his daughter Katharine Tait wrote in 1975. “He was one of the twentieth century’s most famous atheist, his daughter became a Christian.”Ī British mathematician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell (1872 to 1970) were admired as one of the visionary thinkers worldwide. ![]()
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