Einstein and Bertrand Russel

Crisis of the Modern Civilisation
by P.V. Kuryan


Chapter 3


Albert Einstein and the great physicists of our   time have arrived at the conclusion from their researches and studies that the universe is 10,000 million years, the solar system 5,000 million years, and the life on the earth 3,000 million years old. Human civilisation is only 7000 years old. Einstein feared that this civilisation with all its achievements during the last 7000 years,its priceless monuments, works in art and architecture, cites and plains, its greatest centres of culture and learning its factories and more than all its young children beaming with smiles on their faces, its young men and women with throbbing hearts, its men and women with hopes and dreams will perish in a fraction of minute with nobody to survive and mourn the tragic catastrophe. The ruins of Nineh, Jerusalem, Babylon, Athens, Carthage, Baghdad, the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Harappa, Mohanja daro, Ayodya, Patalipthra, Ujjain Madura and the ruins of bygone ages passed in quick succession through my mind. Is this the ultimate destiny which awaits mankind?

Bertrand Russel was more optimistic than Einstein. He pinned his hopes in America, the leader of the later capitalism and democracy. He believed that America with all its  vat resources and immense military strength will be able  to check and keep in abeyance the rising tide of Soviet Communism and will reinvigorate West European  democracies with projects like Marshal Aid  and liberal help. He hoped  that Soviet Communism also will ultimately lose its fanaticism, and blood thirstiness and reason will prevail and communism will liberalise itself once it becomes  aware that its dreams of world conquest will never fructify.
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