Noel Gilroy Annan Baron Annan

The Godless Victorian

Leslie Stephen

Julian Bell

Frances Partridge

Tate Gallery

Simon Watney

Deborah Gage

A Record of the Commemoration for Quentin Bell at the Tate Gallery, London on 25th March 1997

Isaiah Berlin

The First and the Last brings together the earliest known composition and the last essay written by Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died on 5 November 1997. ..'The Purpose Justifies the Ways', written when he was twelve years old, and based on a real murder in St Petersburg (Petrograd), is his first known piece of writing, as well as his only story. Henry Hardy sees it as 'pointing forward to Berlin's repeated later insistence on the inadmissibility of justifying present suffering as a route to some future state of bliss. In this sense the story is the first recorded step on his intellectual journey through life, a journey summarized in his last essay, My Intellectual Path, written seventy-four years later in 1996.' The First and the Last brings together the earliest known composition and the last essay written by Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died on 5 November 1997. ..'The Purpose Justifies the Ways', written when he was twelve years old, and based on a real murder in St Petersburg (Petrograd), is his first known piece of writing, as well as his only story. Henry Hardy sees it as 'pointing forward to Berlin's repeated later insistence on the inadmissibility of justifying present suffering as a route to some future state of bliss. In this sense the story is the first recorded step on his intellectual journey through life, a journey summarized in his last essay, My Intellectual Path, written seventy-four years later in 1996.'he First and the Last brings together the earliest known composition and the last essay written by Sir Isaiah Berlin, who died on 5 November 1997. ..'The Purpose Justifies the Ways', written when he was twelve years old, and based on a real murder in St Petersburg (Petrograd), is his first known piece of writing, as well as his only story. Henry Hardy sees it as 'pointing forward to Berlin's repeated later insistence on the inadmissibility of justifying present suffering as a route to some future state of bliss. In this sense the story is the first recorded step on his intellectual journey through life, a journey summarized in his last essay, My Intellectual Path, written seventy-four years later in 1996.' ..Reflections and observations on Sir Isaiah Berlin's life and work are provided by Stuart Hampshire, Avishai Margalit, Bernard Williams, Aileen Kelly and Noel Annan.

The First and the Last

Noel Gilroy Annan Baron Annan

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