Corrections to The Proper Study of Mankind

Corrections to 2nd edition

The second edition (2014) incorporates numerous corrections, and translations should be made from this edition, with the additional corrections listed below.

*Page*	*Line*	*For*	*Read*
i	9	Marx,	Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, [roman commas]
	18–19	the first three […] remaining volume.	all those listed above, and a four-volume edition of his letters. He is co-editor of The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin (2007), editor of The Book of Isaiah: Personal Impressions of Isaiah Berlin (2009), and author of In Search of Isaiah Berlin: A Literary Adventure (2018).
	2 up	[insert below:]	<https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/>
iii	3 up	[add after this:]	Affirming: Letters 1975–1997
xxiv	9	Vintage	second
9	22	sympathising	sympathising with
16	note 2, 2–3	[do not break ‘C. I.’]
107	6	freewill	free-will
116	19	skills	his skills
120	8	teaching and his influence.	teaching.
123	12	the motives	motives
132	19	whole	whole,
	13 up	time-honoured view	time-honoured, view,
139	21	only be grasped	be grasped only
143	11	casual	causal
146	5 up	[begin new paragraph at ‘We may’]
147	2–3	[run on: no new paragraph]
150	16–17	j’expose,’¹ said a French writer proudly,	‘j’expose,’ said a French writer proudly,¹
152	7–8	, but not by them, by	– not by them, but by
154	14	‘connect’.	‘connect’.¹
		[add note at foot of page:]	¹ E. M. Forster, Howards End (London, 1910), chapter 22, p. 227.
206	17	fact, and	fact,
210	3	heart of	heart of the
	20	slave owner	slave-owner
212	18	concept of it	concept of freedom
256	note 2, 2	1981–	1981–2015
277	note 5, 1	[insert at start of note:]	Letter to Engels, 25 September 1857: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Collected Works (London, 1975–2005), vol. 40, p. 187. Introduction to Dialectics of Nature: ibid., vol. 25, p. 319.
297	8 up	value is	value are
299	5	Duke of Valentino	Duke Valentino
304	20	This according to Machiavelli	This, according to Machiavelli,
305	11 up	rule	rule,
308	12 up	deeds,	deeds
310	19 up	and that	and
311	19 up	rightly,	rightly
314	3	this tradition	this entire tradition
315	9	others	others,
320	18 up	in the story	the story
322	12	assumptions	assumption
	19 up	unrealisable	unrealisable,
	15–14 up	believe in	entail
	13 up	commonplace,	commonplace
324	17	incompatible alternatives	alternatives incompatible in practice or, worse still, for logical reasons,
325		[add below text:]	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The first draft of this paper was read at a meeting of the British section of the Political Studies Association in 1963 [on 26 March at Exeter College, Oxford]. I should like to take this opportunity of offering my thanks to friends and colleagues to whom I sent it for their comments. They include A. P. d’Entrèves, Carl J. Friedrich, Felix Gilbert, Myron Gilmore, Louis Hartz, J. P. Plamenatz, Lawrence Stone and Hugh Trevor-Roper. I have greatly profited from their criticisms, which have saved me from many errors; for those that are left I am, of course, alone responsible. I.B. 1972.
362	12	Homeric commentaries	commentaries on Ossian
443	4 up	generation –	generation,
444	2	sense	sense,
457	last	Fili	Letashevka
472	10–6 up	On 1 November […] and notes.	On 7 December 1864, in the middle of writing War and Peace, Tolstoy wrote to the editor Petr Bartenev, who acted as a kind of general assistant to him, asking him to send ‘Maistre’, that is, Maistre’s books, and on 1 November 1865 he wrote down in his diary ‘I am reading Maistre.’³
	note 3	[replace with:]	³ ‘Читаю [Chitayu] Maistr’а.’
494	10	[add new note after ‘l’épingle’ (translations only):]	¹ ‘Mounting on a pin’.
530	13 up	this: the	this. The
570	14 up	disorders of our race; man is	disorders of our race – man is
622	16	plaisir	douceur
	17	had been.	had been.¹
	[foot of page]	[add new note:]	¹ ‘Celui qui n’a pas vécu au dix-huitième siècle avant la Révolution ne connaît pas la douceur de vivre.’ [‘Anyone who has not lived in the eighteenth century before the Revolution does not know the sweetness of living.’] La Confession de Talleyrand (1754–1838) (Paris, 1891), 57.
637	after line 3	[insert postscript:]	Postscript, 6 May 1955 This talk was prepared before the recent publication of the Yalta documents, but they seem to me to add nothing of significance to our knowledge of the President's character or motives. In these days, when his detractors speak as if all that remained visible are his feet of clay, it is perhaps worth reiterating that his faults and errors as a statesman were the consequences of his virtues. He trusted the Soviet leaders and credited them with good intentions because the motives of those who denounced Stalin appeared to him prejudiced. He was certainly mistaken; but so were a very great many persons, both in the US and in Britain, whose uncritical enthusiasm for the Soviet Union also sprang from their (partly correct but, alas, misleading) belief that it had been misrepresented to them by reactionaries and ex-Communists. Roosevelt's breezy anti-imperialism, which occasionally took reckless forms, his belief that the Russians were at bottom good fellows, if a little rough, who could be cajoled into harmonious cooperation with the democratic world, and, above all, his conviction that personal contact between him and the head of the Soviet State could always settle everything – all these opinions came from too generous and simple a view of his own powers and of the human qualities of others. If he had lived, he might, as so often before, himself have provided the swiftest and most effective correctives of his own gigantic aberrations.
638–48			This bibliography is now out of date. A revised version can be supplied on request.

Corrections to 1st edition

The superseded list below may be of use to owners of the first edition (1997). It includes (but is not exhausted by) the corrections made in later impressions of that edition.

*Page*	*Line*	*For*	*Read*
i	2	delete ‘Andreapol’ and add ‘, in Petrograd,’ after ‘1917’
iv	3–5	These lines are inaccurate: follow later impressions
	2	In the second Chatto impression the 1 has not been deleted
vii	note	Delete existing note	p. 196 below.
x	note	Delete existing note	p. 197 below.
xi	18 up	nineteenth	eighteenth
xv	note	add note cue ‘1’
xvi–xxi		Move preface on one page and adjust running heads
old xvi	9	readership.	readership. The importance of his central ideas is hard to exaggerate.
old xvi	last	take over to old xvii and reduce space above and below centered asterisk at foot of page
xxx	10 up	Fichte	J. G. Fichte
xxxi	1	which lives	the values around which lives [corrected in paperback and US editions]
xxxiii	12	by	by,
		with	with,
3	5 up	moon	sun
107-8	last–first	practical-corrective, deterrent, hortatory purposes	practical – corrective, deterrent, hortatory – purposes
111	5	find its	finds it
112	7 up	du	de
117	18 up	[add note cue 1 after ‘attention;’]
		[insert new note 1:] Stuart Hampshire and H. L. A. Hart, ‘Decision, Intention and Certainty’, Mind 67 (1958), 1–12.
		a nothing	nothing
120	7	owes	owe
141	note 1, 3	voluntary	voluntary and involuntary
	n. 1, 19	yet were	yet they were
150	16–17	‘Je ne propose rien [...] j’expose,’	‘[J]e n’impose rien, je ne propose même rien: j’expose,’[note cue 1]
	[bottom of page]	[add new note 1:]	Charles Dunoyer, De la liberté du travail (Paris, 1845), vol. 1, p. 18.
154	14	[add note cue 1 at end of line]
	[foot of page]	[add note 1:]	E. M. Forster, Howards End (London, 1910), chapter 22, pp. 227.
177	2 up	so,	objective,
191	note 1	This essay is based on an Inaugural Lecture delivered in 1958.	A version of this essay was delivered as an inaugural lecture in 1958. Ed.
195	12	due	not due
222	4 up	August	Auguste
223	16	today, what	today what
229	21	becomes	become
235	note 2	ibid.	op. cit. (p. 198 above, note 1)
242	2 up	it	such a need
244	17	Sophist	Sophists
256	5 up	economists	oeconomists,
258	note 1, 2	1887–1919	1887–1919, 1990
331	12–11 up	in the century,	still,
337	5	of	or
347	note 2, 4	caprice’.	caprice’
390	note, 4 up	to mean not	not to mean
403	12 up	[sich hineinfühlen] into	into [sich hineinfühlen]
443	note	Delete existing note	P. A. Vyazemsky, ‘Vospominaniya o 1812 god’, Russkii arkhiv 7 (1869), columns 181–92, 01–016, esp. columns 185–7.
457	last	Fili	Letashevka
477	note 4, 3 up	swing back and forth as do	are in equilibrium, as are
524	12	insert note cue ‘1’ after ‘... real goods we have,’ ’
	19	1	2
	notes	add new note 1: ‘Sobranie sochinenii, vol. 16, p. 135.’ and renumber previous note 1 as note 2
545	5 up	felt guilt for still lusting	no longer lusted so
601	note	Delete existing note	loc. cit. (p. 256 above, note 2).
638–44		Use updated version
646		Baudoin	Baudouin
	s.v. Belinsky	Vissarion	Vissarion Grigor’evich
647		Büchner, Georg,	Büchner, Ludwig,
650	s.v. Eisenstein	Sergei	Sergey
656	s.v. Lenin	Ilich	Il’ich
658	s.v.	Mickewicz	Mickiewicz
660	s.v. Pascal, Roy	521n	421n
660	s.v.	Perisev	Pertsev [and move to follow Pertinax]
661	s.v.	Delete Poulet entry and increase space above and below q section to compensate
661	s.v. Pushkin	S.	Sergeevich
662	s.v. Samarin	Yuri	Yury
665	s.v. Tolstoy, Count Lev [...]; War and Peace	439–42	439–43

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