An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might conclude that it is the nature of human beings to grow continually taller and wiser in an indefinite progress towards perfection; and this generalization would be just as well founded as the generalization which evolutionists base upon the previous history of this planet.


The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)

Bertrand Russell Quotes

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might...

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might...

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might...

An extra-terrestrial philosopher, who had watched a single youth up to the age of twenty-one and had never come across any other human being, might...