17 DECEMBER 1954, page 8

Inconsistent) Doctrine Was Discredited Less By The...

opponents—theologians, political reactionaries, anti- rationalist romantics—than by the failure of the French revolution, which somewhat undermined the prestige of the......

Realism In Politics

By ISAIAH BERLIN d EALISM ' normally means the correct perception of the characteristics of events or facts or persons without the distortions produced by feelings like hope or......

Yet Something Always Went Wrong. Events Never Took The Form

in which the experts had so fervently believed, whic h they had so constantly anticipated. The French RevolutiaP certainly did not produce the results which its maKers seems so......