Biography. Begas was born in Berlin, son of the painter Carl Joseph Begas.He received his early education (1846–1851) studying under Christian Daniel Rauch and Ludwig Wilhelm Wichmann.During a period of study in Italy, from 1856 to 1858, he was influenced by Arnold Böcklin and Franz von Lenbach in the direction of a naturalistic style in sculpture. . This …

No. An atheist, like a Christian, holds that we can know whether or not there is a God. The Christian holds that we can know there is a God; the atheist, that we can know there is not. The Agnostic suspends judgment, saying that there are not sufficient grounds either for affirmation or for denial. Later in the essay, Russell adds: