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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... part hell. The first real change came when he was sent to a crammer's school at Old Southgate, North London, to prepare for a scholarship to university. He had looked forward to it. 'I feel being where there is some life would do me so ...
... part hell. The first real change came when he was sent to a crammer's school at Old Southgate, North London, to prepare for a scholarship to university. He had looked forward to it. 'I feel being where there is some life would do me so ...
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... feel the hard rock beneath his soft outside, & it makes me perpetually on tenterhooks for fear of what he will say ... feels as if all these people wd. be so much better if they could only know the joys of a purer affection, & it makes ...
... feel the hard rock beneath his soft outside, & it makes me perpetually on tenterhooks for fear of what he will say ... feels as if all these people wd. be so much better if they could only know the joys of a purer affection, & it makes ...
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... feel as if I had known her always', he went on. 'We have grown so singularly intimate during this week's tête-à-téte & it is nice to give the feeling some expression. I cannot help some psychological interest too in the experience ...
... feel as if I had known her always', he went on. 'We have grown so singularly intimate during this week's tête-à-téte & it is nice to give the feeling some expression. I cannot help some psychological interest too in the experience ...
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... feels as if he were to blame.' She (in a tone of evident pleasure): 'Yes, and Kate and Louise had been telling him he was.' I: 'That is one of those brutal actions that put people quite out of court. Doesn't thee feel it so?' She (feeling ...
... feels as if he were to blame.' She (in a tone of evident pleasure): 'Yes, and Kate and Louise had been telling him he was.' I: 'That is one of those brutal actions that put people quite out of court. Doesn't thee feel it so?' She (feeling ...
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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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