Topic： What are Russell's three passions in text How to Grow Old?
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life. First is the longing for love, because love brings ecstasy and releases loneliness. Also in the union of love, he has seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. Second is the search for knowledge,he has wished to understand the hearts of men. He has wished to know why the stars shine, etc. Third is unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in his heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. He longs to alleviate the evil, but he can not, and he too suffers.
