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A Very Personal Impression: Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

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Berlin's Response to the War

Berlin could not bring himself to say that the young were quite right, and their elders had lost the plot. In a curious fashion, many of us feel he both wanted the young to be wrong and expected and indeed, partly wanted them to think the worst of him. He was very pleased to give up the chair and take the institution that began life at ifley college. But since his view of new college was that it had become not very much less boring than when h a l fisher described it as one vast morsoleum, i don't think any of us need complain about occasionally being on the wrong side of isaiah's irritation with people being bore raising the funds that gave

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