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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... seems to have grown steadily weaker from grief. There are, however, no documents after my mother's death; P[em-broke] L[odge] destroyed them to prevent a scandal.' For the death of mother, father and sister within less than two years, a ...
... seems to have grown steadily weaker from grief. There are, however, no documents after my mother's death; P[em-broke] L[odge] destroyed them to prevent a scandal.' For the death of mother, father and sister within less than two years, a ...
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... seems to me much too hard to be understood when read aloud, & the crux of the argument, the psychological part, has been treated much too sketchily, for want of the necessary knowledge; but there seems to be a good deal of good ...
... seems to me much too hard to be understood when read aloud, & the crux of the argument, the psychological part, has been treated much too sketchily, for want of the necessary knowledge; but there seems to be a good deal of good ...
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... seems to be enjoying herself very much here & I think grows fonder of me from day to day as I do of her', he wrote after another visit to the opera. This time they sat up until one and when Mary went to bed she proposed 'a sisterly kiss ...
... seems to be enjoying herself very much here & I think grows fonder of me from day to day as I do of her', he wrote after another visit to the opera. This time they sat up until one and when Mary went to bed she proposed 'a sisterly kiss ...
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... seems to me much better than Girton & Newnham, especially in the greater freedom it allows to the girls. Also those girls that I have met seem to have more independence of mind, more.
... seems to me much better than Girton & Newnham, especially in the greater freedom it allows to the girls. Also those girls that I have met seem to have more independence of mind, more.
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... seems the greatest sign of friendship that he can give anyone is to take them to see his dog's grave. There are those who would not sit down among the angels, he says in his book, if their dog were not admitted with them.' But it was ...
... seems the greatest sign of friendship that he can give anyone is to take them to see his dog's grave. There are those who would not sit down among the angels, he says in his book, if their dog were not admitted with them.' But it was ...
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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