My Grandfather Met Napoleon: Bertrand Russell Interview 1952 - Enhanced Video & Audio [60 fps]
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- Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970) was born in Trellech, Wales. His parents died when he was three years old. He is best known for being a British philosopher, logician, and social critic.
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Bertrand's grandfather, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (18 August 1792 - 28 May 1878), served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1852 and again from 1865 to 1866. In December, 1814, he had a 90-minute meeting with Napoleon during the former emperor's exile at Elba. In June 1815, Russell denounced the Bourbon Restoration and Britain's declaration of war against the recently-returned Napoleon by arguing in the House of Commons that foreign powers had no right to dictate France's form of government.
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@@YoY664 you cant monetise content thats not your own, this channel collects content instead of producing their own. to be fair with this type of content its literally impossible to create your own footage.
but yeah monetising this would go against youtube's TOS and they'd decline a request for monetisation,
this video is so English that a cup of tea came out of my speaker.
The fact that we're hearing a man in an interview only 70 years ago (which is less than one life time) telling a story directly told to him from man born in the 1700s is astounding.
He lived 18 years after this, dying in 1970. Anyone in their late 50s or older could have met and talked to him.
The juxtaposition is truly entrancing
Its something untoughtfull, its a time that was erased
Totally agree.
To correct you- that is exactly one lifetime, one generation lmao
“A world where all kinds of things that have now disappeared were thought to be going to last forever.” Says it all, doesn’t it?
if some thing isn't fought for it its taken away
No need for a fight.
If something isn’t upheld, it will be lost. In time. Like… Tears. In rain.
@@ximono lost in time but we could get it back our home lands and culture should be something to be proud of it
@@dsmith4658 Yes, as long as we don't forget. I don't think _all_ of it is worth bringing back. But some of what we have lost is clearly needed today.
And when he was giving this interview everyone thought that the Soviet Union, the Iron Curtain and the Cold war was going to last forever. But within a mere 40 years after this, it would all be gone. And here we are 30 years beyond that ending and watching the post Cold war era come to an end and a new type of Cold war beginning. The only thing that lasts forever is change.
"The world where I was young was a solid world. A world where all kinds of things that have now disappeared were thought to be going to last forever. It didn't dawn on people that they would cease."
This quote gives me chills. When I am 80, as Bertrand was when he was interviewed, what aspects of our present-day "solid world" will I find absent?
I suppose you try making it to 80 first.
I daresay just about everything!
Today's world isn't solid in the sense that it was in Russell's time.
probably freedom of expression
Our world is anything but solid
I can actually relate to him. I was born in 1981, and I was very close to my great-grandmother, Edwina, who was born in 1897 and died in 2000. Before she and her parents moved from England to the US in 1903, she would often visit her grandparents' house, which was just a few blocks away from her house. Living with them was her great-great grandmother, Sally, who was verified to have been born in 1798. Sally died in 1902, but she and Edwina became very close in those few years that Edwina got to know her. Edwina always talked about how she remembered sitting in Sally's lap and how safe and loved she felt in her arms. I have a photo of me, at three, sitting in Edwina's lap. So, in other words, I, who was born the same year that "Donkey Kong" was released, sat in the lap of a woman who, in turn, sat in the lap of someone born during the lifetime of Washington. It's important to ponder over the fact that these people didn't live "a long time ago". We just don't live long enough.
This is amazing! Your family are blessed with very long lives.
You are very blessed with the longevity of your family members. Most of mine, save for a few, die rather young. My own grandmother, born just 11 years after your great grandmother and died the same year, was one. I used to LOVE listening to her stories. However, her paternal grandparents were dead by the time she was born. Sadly, this side came from 2 of the oldest families in America, going back to the mid 1600's. She did remember her maternal grandparents though who had been immigrants from Germany. However, I would have LOVED to have heard stories about her father's parents.
@@retroguy9494 I was researching my Grandmother last night, she was born in 1918 her mother died when she was one, she was brought up by her step grandmother, who in turn died when she was 10, then her aunt until she was 17 who then died, she was a housekeeper until 22 then she married my grandfather, he died when he was 56, my Nan lived alone until she was 78 in 1996, what a hard life she had
@@shecksthesheckler423 My goodness dude that's HORRIBLE! I can't even imagine what she must have been thinking. I went through the loss of several family member in the '90's as well and my whole world fell apart because the family broke up. Especially with the loss of my grandmother who was our de facto matriarch. And I was an adult when this happened although a young one.
At least she had the love of your grandfather even if it was only until he was in his mid 50's. And, of course, had children and grandchildren. That's still better than being a lonely old bachelor like me!
@@retroguy9494 sadly by all accounts my grandfather wasn’t a nice man, he died when I was 2 so never met him really, but my dad hated him. My grandmother was one of the nicest people despite all her woes and her sons and grandsons loved her to bits. People moan today about silly things they should spend a year in her life. I feel for you losing so many in a short period, I lost my father, father in law and mother in law all within 6 months in 2015, bit of a shock but you know it is what it is, roll with the punches
Fascinating. I was born in 1950 and I remember my grandmother (1885 - 1979) telling me that her grandfather (1794 - 1893) told her what life was like for a young soldier in the Napoleonic wars. She remembered him complaining about boots that were the wrong size for him and also about food rations.
Please tell us more!
Yes please!
You have long lived ancestors
@@I.amthatrealJuan Yes I have long lived ancestors! My mother died last year aged 99 and I had a great grandfather who also died at 99!
The great great grandfather John Davies who also died at the same age (99 runs through my family as 27 does for rock stars like Jimmy Hendrix, Brian Jones and Jim Morrison!) crossed the Channel in 1815 as a soldier but probably did not participate in any battles. At least my grandmother didn’t remember him telling her anything about military confrontations.
Her grandfather was 91 when she was born? He's old enough to be her great-grandfather
When an old person, with good mind, starts telling stories about his own grandparents... you know those stories belong to a whole different world enjoyed by a totally different people.
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My mother is 99 years old. When she was a small child, living in Scotland, her mother took her along with her to the polling station This was a day to remember always, because today all women could vote for the first time in British history. Today, in 2022, there were local elections and we all voted including my mother, who has a postal vote.
It’s easy to take things for granted but we should never forget what our predecessors went through to attain it.
@@alanaw27 And such a very very short time ago, I was born in 1943 perhaps something of a midpoint, in humanities fast-moving and reckless story?. Every possible best wish to those who are younger or much younger than me.
Definitely using the word ‘enjoyed’ loosely there.
its gonna be the same when we will be in our 80s. It will blow the future kids's minds that we knew people who fought in world war II, that survived the holocaust etc.
When i was young I met a retired journalist who, when young, worked for the local paper. He told me that one of the first articles he had to write was about a local woman who had reached the age of 100, which was quite an achievement in those years.
He wasn't looking forward to interviewing this lady - he had assumed she'd be confused and muddled and that he'd never get any good to write about. To his delight she was quite the opposite, she was kind and coherent and very clear with her memories. And she remembered that as a little girl she sat by a local canal watching solders returning from the battle of Waterloo (1815?) on canal barges returning from the local port. She remembered the terrible injuries, the missing limbs, ears and eyes. As a young girl she had never seen anything like it and it had stuck with her all her life.
We think Waterloo is ancient history, but its not really that long ago.
do you have a link on that specific news article
Where back like in those days ago people die around 70 now no longer living untill 100
My great grandmother lived to over one hundred and never lost her marbles, although obviously her body did deteriorate. I remember her saying to herself in my earshot that perhaps it would have been better the other way around as she watched people thirty years younger than herself oblivious to what was going on around them acting like children. It made me think of old age in a different way, I don't want it.
So insightful!! It’s crazy to think that the era he is talking about isn’t so far in the past… just a few generations!
7 generations is a bit more than a few.
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🙄 Okay, cherub… Here’s a bit of attention for you. How many is a few? 🙄
Exactly
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I was born in 1962. My great-grandma was born in 1867 and was absolutely ‘the full shilling’ until she died, 1967 just a day or two short of the telegram. She was interesting to my four year old self - that’s why I remember her.
She remembered - clear as a bell - talking to a bloke who fought at Waterloo. He’d been in the first rank of a square, bayonet fixed, red coat ‘n’ all.
The fella left his clay pipe behind. I’ve still got it - perhaps 200 years after that soldier was born. I’ll pass it on to my son who MIGHT see the 2090s. By then, that cheap clay pipe will 300 years old.
I’m not ‘haunted’ by it, but great-grandma repeated the words of that Waterloo veteran. He described his comrade as being a bit thick: “Tom! Tom! He comes the calvary (sic).” Apparently, the fella had his head knocked off by a cannonball a bit later on.
Such is ‘folk-memory’. And I don’t give a sh*te if it’s precisely accurate or not.
Best wishes,
@@azmosam4572how is it 7 generations if it’s just his grandpa’s story?
I saw a quote one day that I really appreciate now. Every time an old person dies, a library burns down. Really makes you appreciate your elders more.
True, and we retain just a snippet of the content of their entire life, maybe an old photo in an unknown location, with an unknown companion.
I can’t agree with you more. I have been trying to write down all the stories my uncles and father told me. All 3 of them fought in WWII.
my grandfather died 20 years ago and left us the best gift. he wrote his memoir from 1933/2003 he did it in secret. It was a precious gift.
Thank you for this.
Until now I had never thought of committing an act of arson against a public building as a way of commemorating the deceased. I guess it keeps the cremation theme going. Probably also good for those who specialise in building new libraries ...
@@adriaanschepel9001 Hahaha, I think we have solved the mystery of the "Phantom Library Torcher" who has been terrorising the neighborhood these past 5 years.
Im sure his grandmother would be blown away to see her grandson giving an interview in front of a device that can capture his image in motion as well as his voice.
what about what his grandmother thought of sitting in an armchair before dinner?
@@lmn6440 maybe only mildly displeased lol
You’ve buried the lead. Imagine the shock and dismay that the same technology in the 1950s paired with the technology of the 2000s is now allowing a broadcast of her grandson to be shared around the world in real time and in perpetuity. Mind blown!
@@SL-lz9jr yes thats true lol. Remember that his grand parents are of the same generation as the founding fathers of the united states. They would be fascinated to the nth degree over something as simple as video. Back then if you wanted a picture you had to get a painter lol
And then imagine her finding out that it would end up on a place where such videos could be viewed by millions of people all over the planet in seconds.
Sites like RUclips can be easy to take for granted but think about how little we knew about culture around the world that we can now look up and see. Think about how people on social media, for better or for worse, would have never been aware of eachothers' existence without the internet.
We can now communicate with people instantly when just a few hundred years ago, if that, we would've had to wait months for the message you sent to be delivered and then wait several more months to recieve your reply, assuming it was even possible to deliver in the first place.
This is so incredible. The decency of this man is beyond words. Just as he thought certain things would never go away, it appears being gentlemanly and decent has also vanished from our time.
Indeed, he was a radical leftist and atheist. He was a model gentleman.
@@robsemail He was a critic of Bolshevism/Leninism and favored guild socialism over state socialism, so most criticisms of what is called socialism can’t apply to him and other libertarians.
Calla mujer.
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People tend to neglect that. It's always an assumption when the discussion of socialism comes up. Not all forms of Socialism are Marxism or Leninism or Stalinism.
Romanticiism, through rose colloured glasses.The world was a violent cesspit in his time and it was even worse before the Brits fought for decades to curtail the slave trade, eventually being joined by the French and the US, eventually causing the domino effect worldwide. There may be failings in our societies in the West, now and we may have gone a decade, or 2 beyond the perfect time for the average citizens to live on the planet, in terms of their standar of living, enfranchisement and relative privilleges, but certainly right now we live in a more civilised time for your average person, then citizens did in his time. The USA, Western and central Europea,Anglosphere and Tiger economy standard of living And level of enfranchhisement for an average citizen, would be mind blowing to him If he became aware of it.
He is talking from an elitist, White supremacist mindset remember. He may seem gentle and softly spoken, but his contemporaries very much had a mindset that north-western European peoples were Superior humans and even above this, he would put Anglo-Saxon Heritage.
Ironically , in the 21st-century Anglo-Saxon peoples are the least racist on the plllanet, as proven by and them never electing a racist member of Parliamment in the UK in any constituency, unlike every other nation in Europe and the USA. But this has been arrived at through multiculturalism over the last 70 years
When I was a kid I was cutting lawns in the neighborhood. One old guy whose lawn I was doing started talking to me about landing on Iwo Jima. His eyes went wide as he talked about the Japanese marines who he said were unexpectedly tall. He talked about how pitch black it was at night. Even as a teenager I was aware of how his energy chilled as he went back in time. It was like a brief window into the pages of a history book.
People from the older generations are like talking time capsules.
When I was working as a postman in the early nineties I got talking to an old guy who'd been taken prisoner by the Japanese and was showing me one item of his mail was his 'Burma Star association' magazine. He received it periodically informing him of the annual reunion and related stuff which he said was attended by less and less people as the years ticked by as people died off. He went on to say that during the war he was in a forward foxhole with two other British soldiers when suddenly they were surrounded by Japanese soldiers and had no time to react. They couldn't believe they were taken prisoner because it was more usual to be shot in that situation but realised later the Japanese wanted workers. He had a son who worked at Toyota's then new factory near Derby who offered him a tour around the place which he refused as he loathed and detested anything Japanese. He also bemoaned the lack of recognition for what he called Mountbatten's forgotten 14th army.
With good cause. I knew man ( long dead ) who was taken POW with his brother by the Japanese.
His brother died in a pow camp. he later in life killed two Japanese tourists by running them down, it is rumoured this was deliberate. It would be fair to say his hatred for the race was pathological and life long.
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Being born in 1952 and so being alive when Russell gave this interview, and knowing he didn't die until the same year I graduated high school in 1970, makes you realize that events you first think of as being so long ago, were not really that remote, after all. I could have easily known someone like him whose grandfather had spoken to Napoleon OR fought in the Napoleonic Wars. As a young child, the grandfather of one of my family's next-door neighbors who used to have me come over to play on the piano had fought for the Union at Gettysburg in the Civil War. In fact, as I child I knew many people including my grandparents who had been born in the 19th Century, who could recall the first time they ever saw a car or an airplane. Yet here we are and here I am now in the third decade of the 21st Century.
Ah yes. I too was born in 1952. Good to read your comments.
Also being born in fabulous 1952, I can relate.
I was born in 1955 and I sure remember the promises made about "progress." How everyone would live in an all-electric home and go to their jobs on a monorail and everyone would own their own helicopter. What a crock of shit that all was.
Tge juxtaposition is truly mind boggling
I would love to know what he would think of the present times, regarding cancel culture, freedom of speech, the last election, the news media, young people, social media, and space travel.
He makes a valid point: things a generation thinks wil last forever come to an end. Same with what we currently think will last will be gone some day.
I think if just a war starts, most of the generation would be long gone
Unfortunately it seems money grubbing billionaires and conservatives will always be around
Thumbs up if you're reading this in 2122.
RIP MySpace. We hardly knew ye.
Exactly how I use to think and now that I'm almost 57 it really is surreal
This simply amazes me. I was 5 years old when Russell died. To think that I was alive at the same time as a man who knew a man who knew and met Napoleon is mind blowing.
Remembering my own grandmother who was born during the Edwardian age, I know what Russell meant when he said 'he belonged to an age that now seems rather removed.' She was a very proper lady and I grew up on many stories from her girlhood. Even though I was born in the '60's I know exactly what he means when he said 'the world where I was young was a solid world. A world where all kinds of things that have now disappeared were thought to be going to last forever.' The post World War II generation of my parents and grandparents had a vision. Which brought America to its very pinnacle which I still remember well when I was a small boy. When I look around me today, that world seems SO far removed.
Same here. Around 12 I developed an interest in Napoleonic history. Born in '69 it's astonishing to learn my life has coincided with a man who knew a man who knew Napoleon.
@@morningstar9233 Pretty awesome, isn't it? I always loved history. I really would have liked to have been a college history professor. Sadly, my parents had other ideas.
@@morningstar9233 Napoleon himself was born in '69, it's very recent history what is absolutely mind-blowing is the technological progress we got in such a short period
@@ommsterlitz1805 Historically speaking it is recent history, yes. But in in terms of human lifespan it's surprising to know mine has coincided with that of a man who's grandfather knew Napoleon and that was my point.
I was alive at the same time as this guy who knew this guy know knew this guy know knew this guy...
I could listen to Bertrand Russell describing times gone by all night.
“I remember him quite well. But as you can see, he belonged to an age that now seems rather removed.” I am only 24, but my grandfather was in WWII and he was with me for the first 12 years of my life. I was very close with him and knew him very well, but when I think back on him he seems like he was from another time almost disconnected from today. That quote really resonated with me.
My grandfather died when I was about 12 as well and I regret not asking about his past. He was a naval officer in Cuba before the revolution and had an English last name. Not sure if he was a descendant of American or English immigrants but it would have been cool to speak to him now in my mid 40's. Unfortunately people back then didn't take too much care of themselves as it seems everyone smoked and drank daily.
I feel that too. I never met my grandfather, all I can do is hear facts about his time living the spanish civil war on the franquist side.
I only just turned 18 a couple of months back and am still in school currently, but my grandfather also served in WW2 and passed back in 2017. It’s crazy how their generation is literally fading by the day and the things you take for an every day occurrence is becoming apart of history. We literally lived through a pandemic for the past two years, so it’s unreal.
Very similar to me. My grandfather used to telm me stories of his childhood. How growing uo they had to go to the town square and qeue up for bread and rations bexause of the war; how courting a lady you liked had worked and the pranks they used to make at school on teachers and innocent passers-by. I fear I don't remember enough of them...
Disconnect indeed and it seems (unfortunately) disconnected in ways that aren't so good. God bless him.
The late writer Studs Terkel wrote about how he met Russell. 'I shook the hand of the man who shook the hand of the man who shook the hand of Napoleon."
@@yt45204 Does he remember him?
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Thank you for recalling this quote. Now a couple of hundred thousand will have come across it.
He was raised by the man who shook napoleons hand. That’s even more impressive
@@j0nnyism I''ll say!
Very intriguing to think of how time passes quickly, grandparents telling stories of how they lived and how their grandparent's lived can take you back literally 200 years or so of history..... quite extraordinary really.
it is. i find it really creepy and odd in the most positive sense. seeing images and videos from over one hundred years ago sends shivers down my spine as if the times and people are somehow still here.
Here are the numbers...
Bertrand Russell (lived 18 May 1872 - 2 February 1970)
Bertrand's grandfather, John Russell (18 August 1792 - 28 May 1878)
Napoleon (15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821)
John Russell had a 90-minute meeting with Napoleon in December 1814 during the former emperor's exile at Elba. John was 22 at the time. Napoleon was 45.
Much appreciated - the dates tie everything together.
Truly outstanding how his grandfather met one person who was alive in the 1760s and another person who was alive until the 1970s. I bet he met other older people too.
@@solo23508 Napoleon was more of a 1770s kid
@@neoieo5832 He was born in 1769
@@solo23508 people born in 1999, saying they were a 90s kid smh
Here’s one of my favorite Bertrand Russell quotes: “In a democracy, it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged.”
I've never heard that quote - thanks for that. That people seem to have forgotten this causes me to fear for democracy more than anything else does.
That is a fantastic quote. I've never heard it before. Thank you.
Absolutely,today people are so sensitive and whiny😑
@@girlfullofsorrow it's fine because democracy doesn't exist.
I often think that social media is making idiots of us all. The right to disagree is fading.
My mother, born in 1911, used to talk about Napoleon as though she had been through the Napoleonic wars herself. Her family of course had.
Well, to her the Napoleonic Wars were what the First World War is to us. And events like the US Civil War or the Franco-Prussian War were like the Vietnam War.
@@wertyuiopasd6281 I was obviously referring to the distance in time. 🙄
that is a bit eccentric, it would be like my son, who is in elementary school now, would take to refer to WW1 in later life, which I rarely do, and I'm quite the history buff. 100+ years is a very long time in human lives, and those wars, considering that my parents were both born after WW2, so there is really zero overlap.
Let's see ..... the Battle of Waterloo was 96 years before her birth. 96 years before my birth was 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War.
when it's part of your life, it involves your family as well. That's good parenting to not hide anything from your kids..
How I would have loved to meet him and talk with him. Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest minds of his era. We are blessed to still have recordings of him. Something that should be preserved forever.
My grandfather was born in 1906. He and my grandmother raised us for many years. We played on his land and his small creek. We caught frogs and turtles. He told me how when he was growing up when he 5 or so he had a severe sore throat. So his grandmother gave him full strength iodine to drink. It helped his sore throat but his esophagus/stomach was painful the rest of his life. He told me about how he grew up on a farm and of the coming of the airplane and the automobile, TV sets, the Jet plane. I don't think he ever flew on a plane. He told me how everyone listened to the radio before TV and how they loved Bing Crosby. He could remember as a boy they still had horses. My grandfather became an electrician and made a good living but they were dirt poor when he my grandmother got married. He told me how when he got married to my grandmother a wealthy guest at their wedding gave them 5 dollars as a gift and they were able to drive to Niagara Falls from West Point NY for a honeymoon on that 5 dollars. That was in 1930 I believe. Both he and my grandmother were teenagers when the "spanish flu" hit in 1919. They spoke about it often. They remembered their local policeman "Jimmy" who I guess would direct traffic, getting sick in the morning and died late that night. He was "laid out" in someone's living room for the wake. I bet they never dreamed we would have a pandemic 100 years later. He used to speak about FDR and Eleanor who were from the Hudson valley and whom he had met. He would imitate FDR, "I hate WAAAHR." He said that Eleanor was just about the homeliest women he had ever seen. I never once heard him or my grandmother use racist language about any group including African Americans. He had an Irish background and his ancestors had immigrated from Ireland in the 1840's to escape the famine. I believe one of them was killed in the Civil War or as he called it "the war to free the slaves". His best friend was a man, named Corrada? who was killed in a car accident after having been out drinking with my grandfather and their friends. The man drove home alone drunk and flipped his car into a water filled construction ditch and drowned. They said my grandfather was never the same after that. He loved Dean Martin, Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Lawrence Welk. He loved music. He was surprised by the Beatles but bought their first US album. When I was 4 I can remember running around his coffee table singing to "You're going to lose that girl". That's the first music I remember. The first movie I can remember seeing or going to was "Help" at a movie theater. He loved to sing. I can still remember him singing "Buttons and Bows", "Tennessee Waltz", "Blueberry Hill" and "King of the Road". Things change. Yes, I am told by relatives that we are related to Bertrand Russell.
LORD RUSSELL DESERTED HIS WIFE WITH AN AUTISTIC SON IN THE MIDDLE OF A JOINT VENTUREE in EDUCATION Never kept any contact
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Interesting to see people amazed by this man's way of speaking. This is Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest British philosophers of all time - with a Nobel Prize in literature at his disposal.
Wittgenstein said Russell’s books on math should be required reading, while his books on morality should be banned. Russell, the peace advocate, supported a nuclear attack on the Soviets in the 1940s. He was a highly intelligent, yet erratic, man.
@@zachgates7491 ...at least communism would have been nuked.
@@zachgates7491 maybe he saw into the future sort of speaking
@@zachgates7491 Wittgenstein used to beat kids while he was teaching, I'd rather Russell's ethic all day.
@@zachgates7491 The war in Ukraine, not to mention the agonizing 45 years of misery brought by communism and "enjoyed" by my grandparents (may they rest in peace), pretty much prove that Russell's assessment was correct. The world would be much better off without the warmongering Empire of Evil. They should have been nuked into submission like Imperial Japan and properly decommunized. Maybe for you living in your comfy West, with your home heated by Russian blood gas, his books on morality should be banned, for me as an Eastern European they are required reading as well.
"My grandmother, until she was over 70, would never sit in an armchair until after dinner, ever." Such a revealing sentence.
Yes. Revealingly weird.
"Although we had eight servants in the house". Revealing the acting of the upper class at most.
I don't understand this statement, what was he trying to convey? I'm too much of a serf to fathom its meaning
@@clovebeans713 If you don't sit in a chair until after dinner, it means you're up and moving constantly all day. I think it was a clever way of saying that even though his grandmother was wealthy, she made the most of her time and never rested until the day was done
@@ante5544 thanks for the explanation, I thought English upper class would usually go for strolls so it had something to do with that.
I would have LOVED to talk with him about all of his memories. His grandfather saw Napoléon, that's crazy! I went to see an exposition on Napoleon and saw so many of his personal stuffs which hit me hard like "damn, he is not only a name in history book, he lived, he breathed like I do". That's crazy.
I had a great aunt who died at the age of 104 a few years ago. She grew up after WWI with her great aunt who was in her 80s when she was a kid. Her great aunt met Abraham Lincoln and used to tell her stories about him, which she directly told to us.
That's fascinating. Would love to hear more!
Tell us stories please!!
@@AlexoftheLight One thing she told us is that Lincoln looked visually underwhelming, she said something like “he didn’t look like much before you heard him speak”, but once he opened his mouth he became a whole different person and people were fascinated by his energy and eloquence.
@@The-Rest-of-Us wow. Thanks for that :D
@@The-Rest-of-Us Did she ever mention what Lincolns voice sounded like? I'm super curious to know!
"things that have now disappeared were thought to be going to last forever."
"It was thought that there was going to be ordered progress throughout the world."
History never stops moving, but sometimes it circles around to the same point.
Well said
When I look how countries responded to covid with the draconian lockdowns his point makes sense. You think people would be smart enough to realize this isn't a great idea and a step backwards but there are a lot of really low IQ people on earth.
Yeah, and we sure are 'circling back ' now!!!
It is very interesting to consider the Western world in the years between the Franco-Prussian war and WWI. The somewhat common narrative that colonialism, the naval arms race, nationalism, entangling alliances etc. were all pushing Europe to some inevitable colossal war doesn't really seem to hold much worth. It actually seems the opposite is true. People during that time thought they were largely in a post-war era, where international relations were trending towards stability, democracy and liberalism. And there was good reason for that belief; trade was roaring, conflicts between nations were being routinely settled diplomatically, and there was a general trend towards democracy and liberalism even in the famously autocratic Russian Empire.
It makes one stop and wonder what happens if the historic inflection point of 1914 doesn't happen.
@@Sphere723 well, there's this historiography debate over where the seed of conflict began (to put it simply) Was it between the metropolis or was it in the colonies?stating that conflicts between nations keep taking place but in their colonies and then translated to the european continent
I am 77 years old and this great man has been one of my hero’s since I read his A History of Western Philosophy when I was 16 years old. Since then I have all of his non-mathematical books and essays. Very few of us are fortunate to live such a long, fruitful, and productive life. He truly has influenced my life.
I am 25 and I am reading a History of Western Philosophy right now, could you recommend me some of his other works?
@@sanserof7 Russell was a prolific author and you probably couldn’t go wrong reading anything he wrote. A few of my favorites are “Why I am not a Christian and other essays”, “The ABC of Relativity”, and “Religion and Science”. He lived a long and accomplished life, I would recommend you read his autobiography. Hope this helps.
@@Bruno-ho5jl Thanks a lot! I will give it a go once I finish the History of Western Philosohy.
Russell and Orwell pretty much defined my worldview.
He would have been a great man if he had practiced the tolerance he had preached.
My God can you imagine if Russell and his grandparents saw London today?
This is fascinating, that history seemed so long ago, but yet so close. I was born in 1971 my grandfather passed peacefully at the age of 100 years old, and he was born in 1890 and had 9 children, and my father was the youngest. As a child my grandfather experienced 8 nation invasion also known as the boxers rebellion, then during his young Adolescent he witnessed the collapse of the last Chinese dynasty, the Qing dynasty, experienced the massive cultural and movement change that leads to republic of china, he experienced the brutal invasion of the Japanese, where three of his closest brother was murdered. He also experienced the Chinese civil war , experienced communism and introduction of capitalism in the last stage of his life. My great great grandfather,(my grandfather’s grandfather) was a 百户(commander of 100 man army)under Lin zexu during the first opium war.
wow that's so much time. it kinda makes it feel like time goes so damn fast and humans live so long yet barely recognize it. my grandpa who was born in 1945 and for god's grace is still alive told me how his grandpa actually saw zenith of the British east india company's rule in india and also the first indian war of independence during 1857 when a bunch of indian kingdoms declared war against east india company to throw them out of subcontinent but lost after which India got into the direct control of the british crown.
And Napoleon knew that China should never wake up or else the world would shake...
I still remember my father recoding his conversation using a tape recorder with my grandfather (mother's side) who who as a very young boy, witnessed the the greatest naval war called the Battle of Leyte Gulf from the beach shore. On my father's side, there are letters from his family side that their ancestor was one of Washington's soldiers at Trenton, and he actually wrote letters to Ben Franklin the reason why he was fighting was that the British used their farm as a base and took their farm animals without compensation. Another letter was from great great grandfather's friend, who wrote to Ben Franklin that (paraphrasing) "the Brits hate you anyway, if you stay there, they will arrest you" and he did escape London. These letters are kept at Franklin's house in London.
You can tell he brought an air of civility to a discussion. We could use that today.
Nah. Bread and circuses baby.
@@seanpetersen9326 BREAD AND CIRCUSES BABY ROCK AND ROLL LINUX COMPUTERS YEAH
@@lmn6440 your caps lock is stuck.
I agree, since COVID, the world has unleashed anger.
@lanner95 Exactly! Clearly no one bothered to look into his history or the history of his family.
I was born in 1952. My mum was like a walking history book and I loved listening to her stories about my grandparents and great grandparents how she met my dad and what they did during the war. I was so lucky.
My great grandmother was born in 1906. I will always remember her accounting of The Great War through the eyes of her older brother who faked his age and enlisted at age 15.
If I live as long as she I'll be able to quote her about a war nearly 200 years old.
A part of me always thinks of Napoleon and people of his era as having existed in oil paintings but never been quite real.
Personally. Many have agreed with you. 🧐🤔😎 Free Masons say "All the world's their stage ! "
If Napoleon lived until he was 70, you would have seen his photos.
I think that's how Napoleon thought of himself
It will be interesting how future people relate to history now that there is HD video, no dated black and white film or paintings causing disconnect.
@@sdws17 Yes!
It's impressive, nothing less than Bertrand Russell telling family stories from early XIXth century. It's a great video.
I’ve never seen th after Roman numerals before
@@jkadoodle I wouldn't bet the farm on my use of "th" (I'm not a native speaker and make lots of grammar mistakes).
You could just have said the 19th century! The Roman numerals are quite confusing and its usage in everyday language is considered a bit daft , ol' boy .
@@siddharthshekhar909 I'm old-fashioned, it's true. At school, we studied Latin and the Roman numerals. This was many decades ago (back in XXth century). I need to update my style, haha.
@@jkadoodle Only because very few people use them these days.
Imagine how blown away he would have been to know 70 years later I would watch this interview on my telephone.
“He seems from an age that is rather quite removed” as we listen to him in an age that is rather quite removed from the year of the interview…
1952 was the year my grandparents came from Germany to Canada. They both came from relatively wealthy Mennonite landowning families in the Free State of Danzig, but were in a refugee camp and a prisoner of war camp by the end of WWII, and never returned to Pomerania until the 1980s. In 1984 my grandfather found his old threshing machine, sitting in a field, probably right where his father had left it when the fled from the Russian army in 1945. My grandmother remembers the leaflets falling from Allied planes, telling them they had lost the war on VE day, she's still living and active and mentally sharp and celebrated her 99th birthday two weeks ago. They were the first people in their family to move, or even do a different job from their mothers or fathers in at least 5 generations.
beautiful!!!! Makes me cry
Happy birthday to your grandmother!
Amazing stuff.
I didn't realise that Mennonites "did" wealth. I thought they were consciously and deliberately poor.
@@elgee6202 I think less so in the Vistula area, especially compared to Russian Mennonites, they were less strict about things like alcohol and playing cards as well. They were fairly integrated into mainstream German society apparently. But many of grandparents' relatives also fought for Germany during the war, so they weren't zealous enough maintain the usual Mennonite pacifism either.
That interview was made the year I was born. My grandmother who was born in 1894 would tell me about her grandfather, who she knew well, who was born in 1812, so I feel that today in 2022 I have direct knowledge of my great great grandfather from 1812. I also worked with old timers who had worked with my great grandfather when they were young and they would tell me stories about him. For the young folks, sit down and listen to us old folks. You may learn something.
I have read a great number of YT comments over the past two years. It has disclosed a sad, but true fact of modern times. A great number of younger people expect to be told everything, and have their knowledge spoon fed to them. They have a limited amount of curiosity and are somehow incapable of researching things online on their own, let alone going offline and doing the same. A vast amount of knowledge is right in their own hands, yet they ask questions that they could investigate but refuse to. I expect they will lose a lot more over the rest of this century and be surprised when they discover too late that it has been lost.
Excellent.
@@thomast8539 Those people think that if they can't find a short answer on Google within five seconds, it's not worth knowing.
@@reoire843 A lot of the real history is unwritten, untold. Unless you have access to a grandparent and true paper archives, you'll be misled by Wikipedia because they change it all the time.
Napoleon Bonaparte once said, history is a set of lies agreed upon, the true will always evade. All that we know about the world was decided to be added to school books.
Most historians are fable experts.
Totally!
And it is fascinating do so...
History comes more to life.
I was born in 1964 and my grandfather was born in 1892 and served in ww1. He lived until 1988. He passed on a lot of wonderful information. I wish I could still talk with him.
I feel relatively young at 64, but both of my grandfathers served in the First World War. My maternal grandfather was already in the local Yeomanry, and received a Mons Star (Mons was the first battle). Very few who were at Mons survived the war as he did.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
This is quite fascinating, both the insights into 19th century geopolitics and the English cultural norms of those past generations.
Just remember that just like now, he only represents a particular point of view. A very unpopular point of view.
@@keithboynton Apparently you don't understand what he was saying. I have more people agreeing with me than you have. It's only "cryptic" to you because you don't understand his history. And I don't mean that in an ugly way. You just don't know. If you don't know, you don't understand. That's all.
@Thank you oh, yes we’ve progressed so far: suicide rates at their highest, people on anti-depressants, increased violence, theft, lies, materialism, and shallowness.
He is not particularly a representative of English cultural norms of the time, maybe a very small upper class group. In general his perception will be very different just due to the class system. Also his echoing of the view point about napoleon is very much out of line with most English of the time, the man was seen as a tyrant and a threat to our independence.
The first class surely are free to describe cultural norms where slave class do the work
I'm 68 and I knew two family members alive during the Civil War. My great uncles Gene born in 1859 and Richard born in 1857. They both lived into the early 1960's and could remember Sheridan's army burning our farm in 1864 in the upper Shenandoah Valley.
Astonishing to think about how much the world changed in the lifetimes of those two men. All of my grandparents were born in the 19th century, my parents in 1908 (mother) and 1912 (father), and I personally knew several World War I veterans when I was young. Now, every last person born before the 20th century is gone, along with most of the people from before 1950. Life is fleeting and strange when you think about it.
That’s fascinating.
John Russell, Bertrand's grandfather who he talks about here, and who was Prime Minister, sadly never knew his own grandparents, but they were quite an interesting bunch. They included John Russell, Duke of Bedford, who negotiated an end to the Seven Years' War, and Lady Anne Lennox, whose father was the illegitimate son of King Charles II. Her great-grandfather the Earl of Cardigan lived to the age of 96, having been born in the first decade of the 17th century and died one month after she was born.
@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?
@@edithbannerman4I’m doing okay, thank you! Looking at your pic, is that tong long enough to lick your eyebrows?
@@holdfast453 lol
Philosopher, mathematician and one of the greatest authors of the 20th Century.
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.” -- Bretrand Russell
The crossing of generations is an odd thing. I'm now in my mid 60s in the 2020s, but had relatives and neighbours (and even a teacher, still working part time at 82 in 1966!) who were born in the 1870s and 1880s, well before cars, radios, cinema and antibiotics. Indeed, two of my great aunts, both born around 1888, got to be over 100. Some of them could well have met or passed people in the street born in the late 1700s who had even fought at Waterloo under Wellington in 1815.
My grandparents were all born during the 1880s in Britain. My grandfather once told me he recalled hearing about Jack the Ripper when he was an eight year old boy
All 4 of my grandparents were born in the 1800s. I'm 57.
@@keithjones9546 that's the case for my father who is 60
Born in 1888 and died in 1988!
Born during Jack the Ripper dies during George Bush senior
@JcDaniel people die today by things that will be easily treated in future and people probably ddidn't die from things that would have been treatable in further in the past, what I'm trying to say is every generation has luxuries the last didn't and they'll be posing this same question in another 100 years
My Grandfather was born in 1896 in England and the Kaiser Wilhelm ll would come and stay with them, ironically my Grandfather enlisted in Australia to fight The Kaiser & the Germans in the First World War, thankfully he survived with the help of his Brother as they saved each other’s lives more than once, they both survived Gallipoli and the Western front in France. He died when I was 14 in 1979 at the age of 86. He sent his war medals back with a letter in his military file that said he didn’t want medals for killing other young men just like himself, he always taught all of us to look out for and help someone less fortunate than yourself.
What was he a king or something? Please elaborate, lol
Far more amazing than any of this is that your grandfather and his brother both survived Galipoli, let alone the western front thereafter, incredible!
yes,was he from a noble family? because that seems to be the case
@@madhukarjonathanminj2772 yeah thought same, mustve been
Your grandfather was most likely a drunk^^
How something so seemingly recent can so closely relate to something we perceive as so distant and historical, completely boggled my mind.
What a brilliant speaker. The way he forms and structures a sentence, makes me envious.
These videos are the closest thing ever to a real time machine. And that is beyond fantastic!
You should read his autobiography it’s fascinating. One of his tales is that his life was saved by his addiction to smoking, because on one flight he was put in the smoking section and the plane crashed and only those in the smoking section survived due to pure luck. He was also the mentor and teacher to the legendary Wittgenstein.
Probably the only time smoking has ever saved a life!
Hello what is the name of his book thanks?
@@thomasnc Not really. A cigarette is a stimulant, and keeps a very tired person awake for about 30 minutes. Plenty of drivers about to fall asleep have used that fact.
@@chrisjohnson4165 I didn't know that, interesting. The amount of people who have died due to cigarettes is far greater than the amount of people it has saved though.
@@thomasnc Absolutely.
Thank you for posting this. It showed up on my RUclips randomly and I’m so happy it did.
I'm sitting here in 2022 watching a man talk about his life with Napoleon. Blown away by the stretch of time.
I was musing the other day that when I was in Vietnam in 1970 one of the Platoon Sergeants was just finishing up a 20 year service with the US Army as he had joined in 1950. He had been in the German Army during WWII. Even if he had been 25 years old in 1945 (I think he had been 18) the would only have been 50 when I knew him. Now .. that is 52 years ago. Time is strange like that I guess .. we just don't think about it much.
Just shows you that 200 years is nothing actualy.
Time is short . My mother born 1913 and father born 1914 , both , in theory at least could have met people born in the reign of King George 111 , who died in 1820 .
@@samsum3738 my mother was born in 1908 and my dad in 1912. Yes they could have met people born in the 1820s. Mind blowing!
actually he's talking about his grandfather's life with Napoleon, but still pretty amazing lol
What you hear is the upper-class early Victorian English accent that BR would have inherited from his grandmother who was born in 1815 .
Yeah right
Do any English person speak like this still or did this accent disappear?
It's interesting how it sounds more closely related to a modern American accent than most modern British accents are to a modern American accent. Less divergence back then.
@@anthonyj.s.7266 yes - the aristocracy, which Russel was a part. The Queen is nearly 100 and would have known him well. Younger Royals don’t quite have this Germanic received pronunciation accent but it’s similar. The part that rang out for me was (as a Scotsman) he refers to England when in fact he meant Great Britain. The English parliament was abolished in 1707 when Scotland signed the Act of Union. Still, quite an amazing video. However, anyone who thinks those times were better than today has no idea - poverty was rife, the British Empire basically oversaw brutal slavery and subjugation of millions of people.
@@yt45204 hmmm - it abolished slavery in its own empire in 1833 and paid slave owners compensation and only paid off the obligations in 2015! Plus, we basically ruled over other nations well into the 20th century, taking their resources. I used to think as a lad that the UK had a relatively benign empire, but reading up on it and basically we were one of the worst in history. 3.5m slaves bought and paid for from Africa with more than a million deaths on the voyages. 3.8m Indians dead from starvation in India in 1943 because we wanted to use the food for the war effort. I’m not saying all British were bad, but our ancestors were brutal and we basically were not the good guys except in our own propaganda.
This is AMAZING! I never thought I would see Bertrand Russell on film! Thank you! REMARKABLE!
I loved this interview! Thank you so much. What a different world was his.
What a fascinating story. I can’t believe that his grandfather actually knew Napoleon personally. This certainly shows you that elderly people are some of the most influential, because of their stories about living in the past.
His grandfather was twice Prime Minister of the UK.
Not only that, John Stuart Mill was his frkn godfather and he personally met with Lenin. What a life this dude had.
@@feonor26 I didn't know who JOHN STUART MILL so I looked him upl
@@SECRETORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR A great philosopher
That part about not giving the nice dessert to him as a child triggered a memory. My family immigrated to the US in the 60s/70s from Asia. They always regarded American food, especially for children, was junky. When I was at a friend’s house (a white American family; this was the 80s probably for like a bday party) my friend’s grandmother told us that until around the mid-50s, healthy foods like veggies, fruits and basic porridge were considered “kid’s foods” because she said at the time it was common knowledge children needed nutrition. Grownups were the ones that indulged in sugary foods. Desserts were given sparingly to children. When adults were served vegetables, the ones that disliked veggies would scoff “what am I, a growing child?” But somewhere starting in the mid-50 there was a seismic shift when food companies began marketing sugary or low nutrition foods to children. Subsequently in the next few decades sugary foods became known as “kid’s foods”. I don’t remember that party but I still remember that granny giving me that piece of history. As an adult I read more about the history and food companies saw how profitable it was to market sweet foods to kids like cereal. It didn’t help when more parents preferred choosing the cheap and fast option instead of preparing healthy foods. We in modern society talk about how people in the past didn’t understand science like we do today, but they certainly knew it was good to withhold bad foods to children.
This is true. When we were young sugary foods were not part of our diet. There was no HFCS in anything and fast food restaurants didn't exist. In fact going out to eat was a big deal. Now we eat out every night and mostly fast food. I see these gigantic bloated young kids and remember growing up there was maybe one or two kids who were heavy. Now the kids today all seem to struggle with being overweight.
Hence why everybody is fat and diabetic and dying before the government has to pay out much if any Social Security which is exactly what their plan was for this all along
It's impressive how close is history still when we look 200 years back. My great grand-aunt, Pepa (Josefa Lopez) used to tell me, when I was an 11-years old kid, all details about our family's history and genealogic tree since her great grand father Francisco Fernando Lopez settled in Fernandina, Florida, in the 1800s, when Florida was still Spanish. Our family has remained here since then, experiencing how it switched hands 4 times. They had lands and farms.
Wow he talks and sounds so different. He sounded vary proper and elegant. What a treat to listen to this.
This has just made me want to go sit with my grandad and listen to some of his stories growing up while I still have him
So cute👶🏼👴
which you ABSOLUTELY should do. Also, if I were you I’d take some video. I have several videos of my mother in the years before she died, and I can tell you they’re a treasure. No matter how much you love your grandfather, I promise you that years after he’s gone, when you go back to watch the videos or listen to his voice, you will remember things about his personality and speech patterns that you’d entirely forgotten about.
Do it. It's more important than you think, especially in these times.
I am from Taiwan. I have a great uncle who is now 105 years old in my family who worked and retired from the Administration of Customs of the Republic of China. Now a little bit of history: The modern customs administration in China was established and controlled by the British in the 1860s. The Brits( the founder is more like of Irish) set up a management system which is free from corruption and is very efficient. The Republic of China only inherit the Chinese customs after WWII was won. Hence, when my great uncle started working for the Chinese customs, there are still a lot of British and Europeans working there. So he is the last witness of the colonial style management of Chinese customs rooted back in the 1800s and still alive in the 2020s.
one of the best videos on you tube, thank you very much.
RIP B. Russel
Fascinating. Thank you for posting these videos!! 👍🏾👍🏻🕊️
Russell's comments about self-imposed austerity were insightful. Though affluent, children were not spoiled or given sweets.
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My grandfather was born in 1875 and lived for 97 years. He was very hard of hearing (at a time when hearing aid batteries weighed a little over a pound he rejected wearing same) so I never had many conversations with him but it occurred to me that if, as a child, he had had conversations with anyone near his twilight years, I would have had conversations with someone who would have had conversations with people from the American Revolution era.
Get your aging relatives on tape. Someday people will marvel at their insights also.
You are right about getting your older relatives on tape. I wanted to video my Mother and some elderly relatives about their young life and what their world was like. The project never got off the ground, so all their extraordinary experiences of a time gone bye are now lost.
Wonderful interview. Thank you!
Absolutely fascinating. Thank you for posting.
Quite impressive. In the great philosopher's own words and we get to hear them.
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It makes me think of my grandfather telling me that he was 8 years old when the last person died that witnessed the battle of Waterloo, so it was technically possible for me to speak to someone that had spoken to a witness of a battle that took place in 1815! I'm in my 40s
I usually don't like music in the background of a video, but this is very nice and fitting. Good volume too.
Thank you for the beautiful crisp production, text and sound. Impressive.
I was lucky enough to have known my great great grandmother and her daughter. Who were born around the same time as Bertrand. I spent summers with them. They lived in a dirt floor log cabin with no indoor plumbing, electricity or any modern luxury. They told so many stories that I wish I could have recorded. They both died in the mid 1980’s and all I have are my memories. They are wonderful though!
Maybe it would be helpful to record your memories of them on paper, or some other medium, for future generations in your family?
You should have enough respect for your elders not to call them by their Christian names-Russell should be either "Russell" or "Lord Russell" to you.
When a old person dies a library burns down..
Rebecca Mæd: "I was lucky enough to have known my great great grandmother and her daughter. Who were born around the same time as Bertrand." Both of them?? Mother and her daughter?? Around the same time??
Around 1970 I asked once my grandfather born 1892 to tell me of his grandparents born around 1830. I suddenly realised I had through him a “direct” contact with people born 150 years earlier. Strange feeling. That day I decided I will tell all the childhood stories of my grandfather one day to my grandchildren. They too will go back 150years😉
And in 150 years, people can see 4k videos of people today streamed wirelessly directly into their brain on demand. A normal person 150 years ago might only have left a few notes in some church archives of their existence. People living today will leave Terabytes of film, pictures, audio and what have you for the future generations to see without any loss in quality.
@@Mosern1977 dear god what have we done :O
Yep, in the 2060s and 2070s (less than 50 years from now!), the kids will be just as amazed to hear that we knew some of the WW2 generation born in the 1910s and 1920s.
@@Mosern1977 you don't know what the future holds... We have the technology to destroy technology and send us back to the dark ages.
Sorry to be “that guy”, but from 1830 till 1970 there is 140 years 😉 nice story
I’m only 19, but this reminds me of my great-uncle who, though a fairly distant relative, lived next door to my grandmother so i saw him quite a bit. He died when i was about 10 but was born in 1916 and was a soldier in the D-day landings 1944 when he was already 28. He was from a time that is definitely removed from today
Piety, austerity and discipline are what made Britain great. That's what is lost in the modern world. Great video with first hand history.
Wow, the way people used to speak back then is impressive. What a diction, so amusing to listen to.
Give a listen to Christiane Amanpour some time for good diction.
That's because he was highly educated. He had seven servants in the house. There were people who had bad diction.
he was from an aristocratic family, a class which comprised probably less than 1% of the population at the time.
@@martinsmith5520 blá blá blá. I've heard even lower class people speak this way back then. Listen to any boxer back then
Even by the standards of his time and of his class, his accent is slightly strange. It is not in any way a typical upper class accent. He sounds more like a clerk in a suburban bank.
I love the modern world with its technology, etc., and all it can bring us, but watching this is pretty clear a great deal has been lost. I can already relate to his sentiment. I'm a gen Xer, but was raised by people born in the early 20th century. Its a very strange feeling, when you are acutely aware of what is lost as time moves forward. Much of it bad, clearly, but some of it, well, it seems not all bad. So much experience, and possible answers to current problems, that simple die with the people who had those experiences. Some pass it on, in the forms of books or stories, but so much is lost. Sad.
Millennial here. I often think back to my life before the Millennium and my life after and it’s such a stark contrast. I too love what modern technology has done for mankind, in its ability to connect the world in real time, democratize access to certain platforms and mediums, provide greater accessibility to knowledge. But I often lament the values that we’ve lost. The erosion of a certain kind of society. Simple things like a thoughtful letter or a thank you note. I barely get a thank you text message. We’re not so present in the moment when we’re with friends or family. I can’t even begin to talk about the culture we’ve lost. I was still too young when the Millennium arrived, ushering in the dot com era. I was in high school when The Facebook began. So, my memory of the time before modern technology is limited and fuzzy at best. But I know we’ve lost something. I can feel it. I just can’t fully describe it. I am, of course, grateful to be a woman of color living in today’s time. While improvements for my gender and race is still ongoing, I am grateful that it’s gotten better. I just wish there was a way to have the improvements of today paired with the wisdom and knowledge and customs of the past.
My greatest regret was not being closer to any of my grandparents while they were alive so I could learn of their lives in the early-mid 20th century. And perhaps learn from them of what life was like for their parents (my great grandparents). Sadly I come from a family without any written family history. I don’t know if genealogy records exist. My parents don’t even know the names of previous relatives nor how to write them. Literacy was an issue for many up to a certain generation. Then there was the Chinese Cultural Revolution which led to the destruction of journalism, history, genealogy, arts, etc. A lot was lost. I was lucky that I had four living grandparents during my lifetime but I squandered those years like a foolish child. To be fair, I lost my paternal grandfather while in college. Before that my paternal grandmother suffered an injury which affected her memory. I wasn’t close to my maternal grandfather because I looked too much like my father, whom he didn’t like for my mother, so I generally stayed away from him and knew the least about his life. And my maternal grandmother was ill with cancer throughout my 20s. So, really, the prime time in my life to learn from my grandparents was in my youth. And, what can I say, except that the youth are foolish. We all think we’ll have more time to learn our family history, more time to get to know our family members. It didn’t help my family was reserved and guarded. Still, no excuse!
Very apt and thoughtful.
@@SL-lz9jr beautiful sentiment.
I’m a Gen Xer too and we can both remember a time before internet and cell phones. My children have no concept of this. Also our grandparents were the Greatest Generation the WW2 generation, Great Depression and so on. Our time has certainly changed from our childhood.
We cooperate more in sin and transgression, we don’t heed the call: “help ye one another unto righteousness and pious duty, help not one another unto sin and transgression.” If we cooperated open-heartedly we may triumph over interminable odds.
This interview is a microcosm of time travel. Thank you. The back round Chopin music makes it absolutely lovely to watch.
This overwhelm me. Best Interview I ever see!
This video is a piece of art, please everybody save it, share it and never ever let it be lost! Greetings from Sri Lanka
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I was trying to figure out how this could be true and went to Wikipedia and verified it. Turns out that his grandfather, John Russell, started in Parliament at the age of 20 in 1813 and Napoleon Bonaparte's reign ended in 1815.
@@spanky9676 Fixed
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As a son of a duke he could easily be elected from a pocket borough.
In 1814 Napoleon was defeated and was exiled to the Isle of Elba - people thought it was all over and that peace had returned. But he escaped, landed in the south of France and raised a new army, which was finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. He was sent to a definitive exile on the British island of St Helena where he died 6 years later. So the period 1814-1815 was one of great terror in Europe, and in England especially, as a French invasion had been feared for two decades. Being in Parliament from 1813 was "an interesting period".
@@nts821 Title of father not so relevant as the huge landholdings of his father, which as you say would have given him control over several pocket boroughs, including Tavistock, the centre of his vast Devonshire estate. His grandfather's first seat in Parliament in 1813 was indeed Tavistock.
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Amazing! Thanks for posting.
His 3rd wife, Patricia Russell, only died in 2004
Patricia Russell died in 1952
@@zoefoster1873 No. In 1952 they divorced. Patricia Russell died in 2004.
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"My grandmther, until she was after 70, would never sit in an armchair until after dinner, ever."
Priceless.💗
Yes, I found that remark stuck out for me. I suppose it reflects the notion of idleness being considered as immorality and the occupation of a wastrel; the notion that “idle hands are the Devil’s workshop”. Fascinating.
Amazing to contrast the austerity, deliberate deprivation and discipline imposed upon the young Bertrand as a manner of developing sound character with the manner of utter indulgence (“everyone is special” no matter how indolent) afforded the young, after WW2…. In the West, anyway. I was one!
And today we have many obese youngsters, many singing Grime and Drill songs, righteously broadcasting victimhood of various types, naval gazing, virtue signaling and in the pursuit of sympathy at every opportunity.
The older I become, the wiser my father becomes. Strange, that.
@@penfro I am sure they sat down frequently during the day. Back then the cushioned arm chair was seen more like a recliner today, something you relaxed in when the day was over. Uncushioned straight back chairs (and stools) were widely used. Straight backs usually didnt have arm rests, which were for more reclining
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It's just fascinating to hear how short human history actually is.
Thank you for making this channel. It is superb!
Imagine hearing your grandfather tell you about the time he visited Napoleon Bonaparte on the Isle of Elba🤯.
My great-great-great grandfather visited Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena, during his final exile 1815-21. Many British officers like him did so as they stopped there during the sea voyage home from India. He became a sort of tourist attraction, and received them all with grace. At the time of my ancestor's visit Boney had just died and he obtained a lock of his hair and a swatch of the wallpaper in his bedroom, which my family still has in a glass framed case.
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing!
"But he belonged to an age that now seems rather removed" looks up and smiles that gave me chills
Now i can say, “I saw someone who saw someone who spoke to Napoleon”. How mind blowing is that!!
Just like when Al Bundy met the guy who met Andy Griffith! Lol! 😆
It's mind blowing to think that since we only see Napoleon in paintings. Would be mind blowing to see what he looked like in reality.
Ya the problem is that its not true napolean died in 1821 so his granfather would have had to been 130 years old this is easily debuncable
@@superfrostynugs6997 you didn’t listen closely
@@GabiN64 A short angry French dude with short man syndrome.
I don’t ever remember my Mom sitting in an armchair or on the couch till after dinner. Brought up in the 1960s & 70s.
Why would they not?
@@Mr.Goodkat They had housework to do. Cooking, cleaning, washing, ironing, grocery shopping, baking, making beds, washing dishes, etc.
@@ednorton47 but Countess Russell had 8 servants to do all that.... why couldn't she have tea in the afternoon, in a cosy chair?
@@Blackadder75 Bertrand Russell said it. Austerity, strict discipline...It wasn't proper to be a "lazy slob" and it was cool to be uptight :)
Not only only wasn't it proper, for many it was a sin.
Thank you for this amazing video.
amazing. you did very well restoring the footage.
My mum was born in 1939. In 1945 aged 6 she met a man who was in his 90's whose dad had served at the Battle of Trafalgar.
134 years before her birth, that would be 1888 to someone born today, his father would have had his son in his 40s, if my maths is right, so entirely reasonable.