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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... actions, like planetary motions, could be calculated if we had sufficient skill. By the time I was fifteen, I had arrived at a theory very similar to that of the Cartesians. The movements of living bodies, I felt convinced, were wholly ...
... actions, like planetary motions, could be calculated if we had sufficient skill. By the time I was fifteen, I had arrived at a theory very similar to that of the Cartesians. The movements of living bodies, I felt convinced, were wholly ...
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... action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. Russell's own later accounts of his development at Pembroke Lodge are contradictory. 'My ...
... action has its reward, and every sin is forgiven. My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter. Russell's own later accounts of his development at Pembroke Lodge are contradictory. 'My ...
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... action, determined to save her grandson from a marriage she considered would be at least unfortunate and probably disastrous. As it happened, Granny was right. Only her tactics were wrong, since her ensuing succession of subterfuges led ...
... action, determined to save her grandson from a marriage she considered would be at least unfortunate and probably disastrous. As it happened, Granny was right. Only her tactics were wrong, since her ensuing succession of subterfuges led ...
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... action not brought a corresponding reaction as inevitable as any in Newtonian physics; or had invincible earnestness not isolated him from those delights of Paris society into which the Ambassador failed to entice him. Even so, he ...
... action not brought a corresponding reaction as inevitable as any in Newtonian physics; or had invincible earnestness not isolated him from those delights of Paris society into which the Ambassador failed to entice him. Even so, he ...
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... action; and, although the mechanism of the event was still unknown, a sharp tap on the knee did produce a reflex movement of the human leg. To Leibniz, such objections were based on a wrong view of the universe. All monads – Veritable ...
... action; and, although the mechanism of the event was still unknown, a sharp tap on the knee did produce a reflex movement of the human leg. To Leibniz, such objections were based on a wrong view of the universe. All monads – Veritable ...
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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