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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... tuberculosis, it was unfair to expect him to remain celibate. My mother, therefore, allowed him to live with her, though I know of no evidence that she derived any pleasure from doing so.' Disclosure of this state of.
... tuberculosis, it was unfair to expect him to remain celibate. My mother, therefore, allowed him to live with her, though I know of no evidence that she derived any pleasure from doing so.' Disclosure of this state of.
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... lives. A low white building, it stands on a slope dropping from the edge of Richmond Park towards the silver curl of the river. In the distance lies the bushiness of the Royal Parks, Windsor on the skyline and, away to the south, a ...
... lives. A low white building, it stands on a slope dropping from the edge of Richmond Park towards the silver curl of the river. In the distance lies the bushiness of the Royal Parks, Windsor on the skyline and, away to the south, a ...
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Ronald Clark. horizons with an unimpeded sight of the sunset and was unable to live happily without both. In the eleven acres surrounding Pembroke Lodge, bluebells carpeted the slopes in spring. The fine trees included beeches, chestnuts ...
Ronald Clark. horizons with an unimpeded sight of the sunset and was unable to live happily without both. In the eleven acres surrounding Pembroke Lodge, bluebells carpeted the slopes in spring. The fine trees included beeches, chestnuts ...
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... Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, to which college Frank had by this time gone up, was standing at the foot of his bed. 'Don't do it, young man', Jowett was saying. 'Don't do it: you will live to regret it.' He was dissuaded –
... Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, to which college Frank had by this time gone up, was standing at the foot of his bed. 'Don't do it, young man', Jowett was saying. 'Don't do it: you will live to regret it.' He was dissuaded –
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Ronald Clark. you will live to regret it.' He was dissuaded – at least for a time. But the idea remained only round the corner, and few great men can have left in their records so many reflections that suicide might be the best way out ...
Ronald Clark. you will live to regret it.' He was dissuaded – at least for a time. But the idea remained only round the corner, and few great men can have left in their records so many reflections that suicide might be the best way out ...
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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