 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
It must, I think, be admitted that the evils of the world are due to moral defects quite as much as to lack of intelligence. But the human race has not hitherto discovered any method of eradicating moral defects; preaching and exhortation only add hypocrisy to the previous list of vices. Intelligence, on the contrary, is easily improved by methods known to every competent educator. There fore, until some method of teaching virtue has been discovered, progress will have to be sought by improvement of intelligence rather than of morals.
Source: Sceptical Essays, 1928, chapter 12: Free thought and official propaganda
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