title: Sceptical Essays (Routledge Classics) (Volume 101)
author:  Bertrand Russell 
description: "a collection of some of the most beautifully written and engaging essays in the English language, in which he tries to show that skeptical doubt can change the world."
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  Why Men Fight
  
   **“The supreme principle, both in politics and in private life, should be to
  promote all that is creative, and so to diminish the impulses and desires that
  centre around possession.”**
  
   _Bertrand Russell_
  
   **“Russell is one of the most profound thinkers of the modern age.”**
  
   _The New York Times_
  
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  Routledge Classics contains the very best of Routledge publishing over the
  past century or so, books that have, by popular consent, become established as
  classics in their field. Drawing on a fantastic heritage of innovative writing
  published by Routledge and its associated imprints, this series makes
  available in attractive, affordable form some of the most important works of
  modern times.
  
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  Why Men Fight
  
   _ **Bertrand Russell**_
  
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   _London and New York_
  
  First published in 1916  
  by Geo