Thank you for this. I haven't read Russell much but I like this quote so much that I decided to put it on my reading list. In fact, I'm thinking about putting a

Thank you for this. I haven't read Russell much but I like this quote so much that I decided to put it on my reading list. In fact, I'm thinking about putting an excerpt from it on the syllabus for a history of science course I'm gearing up to teach this semester. A big part of why I'm an historian is because I really value the kind of empathy that he's talking about here.