Summary: The author reflects on Bertrand Russell’s 1923 piece “A Free Man’s Worship,” finding its messages particularly relevant today. Russell emphasizes the importance of compassion and support for others as we all face life’s challenges and inevitable hardships. Ultimately, he encourages us to cherish and uplift each other while navigating our shared struggles.
The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. (View Highlight)
Be it ours to shed sunshine on their path, to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy, to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection, to strengthen failing courage, to instil faith in hours of despair. (View Highlight)
Brief and powerless is Man’s life; on him and all his race the slow, sure doom falls pitiless and dark. (View Highlight)