Isaiah Morris Bower and John Sparrowd

He liked conspiring to put not entirely suitable people into chairs in subjects remote from his own. He could suffer from the social and intellect a snobbery. The need to keep in with friends who didn't see eye to eye with each other often led him to say malicious things behind their backs. His lukewarm recommendation of herbert hart for a fellowship at new college was not only unkind, but it was hopelessly wrong about how good herbert hatt would turn out. B's judgment that peter strawson's individuals was an i quote, provincial, leaves any one who knows any philosophy wide eyed and open mouthed. To this lecture is very much a personal impression