 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
It was not Christian charity, but the spread of the scientific outlook, that. from about the time of Newton, put an end to the burning of harmless women for imaginary crimes. The tabu elements in conventional morality are less fierce in our day than they were 300 years ago, but they are still in part obstacles to humane feeling and practice, for example in the opposition to birth control and euthanasia.
Source: Bertrand Russell: Human Society in Ethics and Politics, (1954), chapter 1
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