The Life of Bertrand RussellThe eloquent and intimate biography of one of the most significant figures of the last century. Bertrand Russell was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist and won the Nobel Prize for literature. Born into the high world of the Whig aristocracy, among people for whom Waterloo was still almost a personal memory, Russell lived to inspire the campaign against nuclear warfare. He was imprisoned in 1918 for his Pacifism. Ronald Clark, with access to a mass of material, provides a fascinating and graphic portrait of the man. There is virtually no aspect of Russell's long life to which something new - and often unexpected - is not added by this remarkable and incisive book. |
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... Bertie, reported Lord Amberley's sister, Aunt Agatha, 'made a nice little bow – but he was much subdued & did not treat Her Majesty with the utter disrespect I expected'. Russell, taking a friend's young son on his knee eighty years ...
... Bertie, reported Lord Amberley's sister, Aunt Agatha, 'made a nice little bow – but he was much subdued & did not treat Her Majesty with the utter disrespect I expected'. Russell, taking a friend's young son on his knee eighty years ...
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... Bertie at least must be preserved pure, religious, and affectionate; he must be fitted to take his grandfather's place as Prime Minister and continue the sacred work of Reform.' Bertie, after a brief spell at a local kindergarten, was ...
... Bertie at least must be preserved pure, religious, and affectionate; he must be fitted to take his grandfather's place as Prime Minister and continue the sacred work of Reform.' Bertie, after a brief spell at a local kindergarten, was ...
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... The expedition had started by 1883 when Frank Russell took his brother's mathematical training in hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his diary on 9 August. 'He is sure to prove a.
... The expedition had started by 1883 when Frank Russell took his brother's mathematical training in hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his diary on 9 August. 'He is sure to prove a.
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... Bertie came to claim a visit to Dunrozel.' He and his young wife accepted the invitation brought over by the boy and stayed to supper. During the next few years, as the inhabitants of Pembroke Lodge made a regular summer migration to ...
... Bertie came to claim a visit to Dunrozel.' He and his young wife accepted the invitation brought over by the boy and stayed to supper. During the next few years, as the inhabitants of Pembroke Lodge made a regular summer migration to ...
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... Bertie, and even his brother, who turned up one day for luncheon, in that American Quaker family, and to hear those young women speak of the elder brother as Frank, which I never heard any of his friends or his wives do. But the ...
... Bertie, and even his brother, who turned up one day for luncheon, in that American Quaker family, and to hear those young women speak of the elder brother as Frank, which I never heard any of his friends or his wives do. But the ...
Contents
Principia Mathematica | |
The New Romantic | |
A Long March Downhill | |
Start of an Experiment | |
End of an Experiment | |
The American Ordeal | |
A Member of the Establishment | |
The Last Attachment | |
Towards a Short War with Russia? | |
Into the New World | |
Ottoline | |
Enter Wittgenstein | |
Ebbing Tide | |
An American Adventure | |
Against the Stream | |
Into Battle | |
Colette | |
From War to Peace | |
TurningPoint | |
The Genesis of Protest | |
The Rise of Ralph Schoenman | |
The Enigmatic Friendship | |
Once More His Own | |
Private Memorandum concerning Ralph | |
Sources and Bibliography | |
Notes and References | |
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