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Unit 4 Health Text A How to Grow Old? Bertrand Russell Unit Four Text A Teaching Aims and Requirement Before Reading Cultural Background Bertrand Russell Born: 18 May 1872 Birthplace: Wales Died: 2 February 1970 Best Known As: Mathematician and philosopher Famous Quotes from Bertrand Russell All human activity is prompted by desire. Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell The British mathematician, philosopher and social reformer Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born in Wales in 1872. In his long and complex life, Russell took many roles. After a distinguished mathematics and philosophy course at Cambridge University, he was elected to a fellowship. His major early work was The Principles of Mathematics, first published in 1903. During the First World War Russell’s pacifist activities resulted in the loss of his fellowship and his vocal protests against the War led to a brief jail sentence in 1918. In 1938 he took an academic post in America and stayed there for most of the Second World War. His book named A History of Western Philosophy sold well in 1940s and removed his financial troubles. He was given the Nobel Prize for literature in 1950. From 1954 onwards he became an outspoken advocate of nuclear disarmament. He died in 1970. Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) British politician and historian Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) is a British politician and historian, author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Educated at the University of Oxford and in Switzerland, Gibbon wrote his early works in French. In London he became a member of Samuel Johnson’s brilliant intellectual circl