“Ideas That Have Helped Mankind’’ is an illuminating essay written by the great British writer and philosopher Bertrand Russell. Bertrand Russell has talked about the ideas that have helped mankind and increased moral qualities to make a man civilized. There are two broad categories of ideas that have helped mankind. The ideas which helped human being with knowledge and skills and secondary with their moral and politics.

The ideas played a vital role in the grown of our civilization that made our life more secure. It resulted in the population of exposition and starvation. We still fight with one another in the name of religion, caste and nation due to our emotional feelings.

The invention of fire proved a milestone. The domestication of animals, the development of language, the cultivation and the art of writing made us rise from our wild state to our civilized state. However, we have to get victory over fear, worry and starvation to make the people happier, peaceful and fearless.