As the great man's guest must produce his good stories or songs at the evening banquet, as the platform orator exhibits his telling facts at mid-day, so the journalist lies under the stern obligation of extemporizing his lucid views, leading ideas, and nutshell truths for the breakfast table.
Cardinal J. H. Newman, Preface to The Idea of a University, 1852

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Isaiah Berlin, and difference

From Adam Phillips' review of Isaiah Berlin, Enlightening: Letters 1946-60 in the London Review of Books:
All of Berlin's writing is an attempt to pesuade people not to talk on other people's behalf.
This links, in my mind anyway, to arguing that geography is not history. It is about acknowledging differences.
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