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'The God Delusion' and its discontents: Commemorating Richard Dawkins' 81st birthday

Bertrand Russell, George F. Will and Richard Dawkins' 80th birthdays

AROUND May 1952, philosopher Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–Feb. 2, 1970) wrote an essay 'Reflections on My Eightieth Birthday,' which was reproduced in Portraits from Memory (first published 1956) and as an addendum at the end of the third and final volume of his autobiography (first published 1969).