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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... hand was wet with his tears', Maude Stanley wrote. 'The Dr lifted Bertrand up & [Amberley] kissed him gently & softly & said “Goodbye my little dears for ever”. He then lay perfectly quiet with a smile, never moved or shut his hands ...
... hand was wet with his tears', Maude Stanley wrote. 'The Dr lifted Bertrand up & [Amberley] kissed him gently & softly & said “Goodbye my little dears for ever”. He then lay perfectly quiet with a smile, never moved or shut his hands ...
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... the south, a restraining hand enclosing one side of the Thames Valley, the blue trace of the North Downs. The view itself was to be important to Russell; he grew accustomed to wide horizons with an unimpeded sight of the sunset and was.
... the south, a restraining hand enclosing one side of the Thames Valley, the blue trace of the North Downs. The view itself was to be important to Russell; he grew accustomed to wide horizons with an unimpeded sight of the sunset and was.
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... hand. Lady Russell's evangelical concern to press her younger grandson into a mould of her own choice stamped him physically, intellectually and emotionally with marks that lasted all his life. A puritan despising comfort, indifferent ...
... hand. Lady Russell's evangelical concern to press her younger grandson into a mould of her own choice stamped him physically, intellectually and emotionally with marks that lasted all his life. A puritan despising comfort, indifferent ...
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... to love, but then Auntie will go away.' A few years later the departure of a former governess who had returned to Pembroke Lodge for a few weeks is followed by a diary entry in Russell's hand: 'And I am left again to.
... to love, but then Auntie will go away.' A few years later the departure of a former governess who had returned to Pembroke Lodge for a few weeks is followed by a diary entry in Russell's hand: 'And I am left again to.
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Ronald Clark. entry in Russell's hand: 'And I am left again to loneliness and reserve.' And during the unhappy years of ... hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his diary on 9 August. 'He is sure to ...
Ronald Clark. entry in Russell's hand: 'And I am left again to loneliness and reserve.' And during the unhappy years of ... hand. 'I gave Bertie his first lesson in Euclid this afternoon', he noted in his diary on 9 August. 'He is sure to ...
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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