Mysticism and Logic including A Free Man’s Worship

This collection of essays is concerned with different ways of knowing; the particular problems of philosophy; and the ultimate nature of matter. They reveal Russell’s lifelong preoccupation: the disentanglement with ever increasing precision of what is subjective or intellectually cloudy from what is objective or capable of logical demonstration. In them we can see the Russell method in operation; intellectual analysis dissecting a problem to its bare bones. Also included is Bertrand Russell’s now celebrated essay A Free Man's Worship. In it Russell maintains that a new and deeper faith can be constructed, not faith in a theological sense but faith in the power of reason; his faith in man's capacity to create his own world through his own effort.