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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... young (4 years old). A beech plantation, bad & straggly near the house – shelter it from the N. wind. There is a Kitchen garden & no fence to it. Stabling for 3 horses & one coach house – good offices – Tintern 3 miles off – Wye 2 miles ...
... young (4 years old). A beech plantation, bad & straggly near the house – shelter it from the N. wind. There is a Kitchen garden & no fence to it. Stabling for 3 horses & one coach house – good offices – Tintern 3 miles off – Wye 2 miles ...
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... young scientist studying animal instincts who in 1873 had been employed by the Amberleys as tutor for Frank. It is possible that Russell's grandparents would have condoned Cobden-Sanderson's lack of faith, much though they regretted it ...
... young scientist studying animal instincts who in 1873 had been employed by the Amberleys as tutor for Frank. It is possible that Russell's grandparents would have condoned Cobden-Sanderson's lack of faith, much though they regretted it ...
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... young Russell; being told so little about his parents, and that little with obvious inhibitions, he Vaguely sensed a dark mystery'. Looking back over a youthful shoulder, all he saw was doubt and uncertainty. It is tempting to speculate ...
... young Russell; being told so little about his parents, and that little with obvious inhibitions, he Vaguely sensed a dark mystery'. Looking back over a youthful shoulder, all he saw was doubt and uncertainty. It is tempting to speculate ...
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... Young Pretender. Lord John had visited Napoleon on Elba. And much conventional education was almost superfluous when holidays could be spent at the Archbishop of Canterbury's home, when the Queen or the Prime Minister might drop in for ...
... Young Pretender. Lord John had visited Napoleon on Elba. And much conventional education was almost superfluous when holidays could be spent at the Archbishop of Canterbury's home, when the Queen or the Prime Minister might drop in for ...
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... young pupil asked with naive innocence. Everything apparently rested on them, so it was surely essential that their validity was beyond the slightest doubt. Frank's statement that the Axioms had to be taken for granted was one of ...
... young pupil asked with naive innocence. Everything apparently rested on them, so it was surely essential that their validity was beyond the slightest doubt. Frank's statement that the Axioms had to be taken for granted was one of ...
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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