Letter to Miss Rinder, July 30, 1918 - Bertrand Russel

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There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and strong as Death, a mystic contemplation, the "intellectual love of God." Those who have known it cannot believe in wars any longer, or in any kind of hot struggle. If I could give to others what has come to me in this way, I could make them to feel the futility of fighting. But I do not know how to communicate it...

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