Corrections to The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Corrections to 2nd edition
The second edition (2013) was completely revised throughout, and translations should be made from this edition, with the additional corrections listed below.
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| i | 11 | Marx, | Marx, The Age of Enlightenment, [roman commas] |
| 2–1 up | 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). |
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| ii | 2–3 | The Infinities | The Singularities and The Lock-Up. |
| 4 | for the Irish Times | [delete] | |
| 2 up | [insert below:] | <https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/> <https://berlin.wolf.ox.ac.uk/> |
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| iii | [add at end:] | Affirming: Letters 1975–1997 | |
| iv | [a frontispiece is available on request] | ||
| vi | 9 | [add line after:] | Reprinted with corrections 2023 |
| 11 | 1992, | 1992 | |
| 13 | 2004, 2013 | © The Trustees of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust 2004, 2013 | |
| 14 | 1990, | 1990, 1997, | |
| viii | note 1, 5 | xi | xxii–xxiii |
| ix | 2 up | [add entries after this line, ranging page nos right:] |
Russell’s History of Philosophy 279 Reply to Robert Kocis 303 Reply to Ronald J. McKinney 313 Letters 319 |
| xv | 11 | sympathising | sympathising with |
| xix | note 2, 3 | New York, 1979) | New York, 1979; 2nd ed., Princeton, 2013) |
| note 1, 5 | 2001) | 2001; 3rd further expanded ed., London and Princeton, 2014) | |
| note 1, 6 | 1991. | 1991 (2nd ed., Princeton and London, 2013). | |
| note 3, 3 | 2000). | 2000; 2nd ed., Princeton and London, 2013). | |
| note 4, 2–3 | on the […] Library’, | in the Isaiah Berlin Virtual Library | |
| note 4, 4 | />. | /> and in interactive form on the official website of the Isaiah Berlin Literary Trust, Isaiah Berlin Online, <https://isaiah-berlin.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/>. | |
| note 5 | 2000). | 2000; 2nd ed., Princeton, 2013). | |
| xx | note 1, 4 | 1997), | 1997; 2nd ed., Princeton, 2019), |
| note 1, 5 | 2002), | 2002; 2nd ed., Princeton, 2014), | |
| note 1, 6 | 2004), | 2004; 2nd. ed., Washington, 2016), | |
| xxi | 19 | 21November | 21 November |
| xxv | after last line | [add new line:] | (with later updates) |
| after new last line | [add postcript:] | I am grateful to Professor Reiji Matsumoto, translator into Japanese of ‘Joseph de Maistre and the Origins of Fascism’, for drawing my attention to an unclarity in note 1 to p. 136. I should have made explicit that only the first ten words of the quotation are based on Montesquieu, who wrote ‘Quand les sauvages de la Louisiane veulent avoir de fruit, ils coupent l'arbre au pied, et cuillent le fruit’ (‘When the savages of Louisiana want fruit, they cut down the tree at its base and pick it’); this in turn is based on a letter of 9 November 1712 from père Gabriel Marest to père Germon, Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, écrites des missions étrangères, par quelques missionaires de la Compagnie de Jésus (Paris, 1702–76) xi 315 (a brief reference, but not the quotation, is given in a note in De l’esprit des lois present since the first edition): ‘Nos sauvages ne sont pas accoustumer à cuiller le fruit aux arbres; ils croyent faire mieux d’abattre les arbres mêmes’ (‘Our savages are not used to picking fruit from trees; they think it better to cut down the trees themselves’). So Maistre is in fact, perhaps unwittingly (did he look up the passage?) and at one remove, echoing the words of Marest. The rest of the remarks by Maistre quoted here by IB may have similar origins, but I have not found them. |
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| 4 | 10 up | moon | sun |
| 11 | 19 | sympathising | sympathising with |
| 39 | 11 up | society, | society |
| 44 | 13 | superpersonal | super-personal |
| 103 | 5 | Burke, Chateaubriand | Chateaubriand |
| 119 | note 1, 1 | v 32–3 | iv 32–4 |
| 129 | 14 | Blut and Boden | Blut und Boden |
| 136 | note 1 | 13. | 13, and xxv above. |
| 157 | note 2 | op. cit. | Oeuvres complètes |
| 171 | 2 up | only used the term | used the term only |
| 236 | note 2 | op. | loc. |
| , xxix 366 | [delete] | ||
| 254 | note 2, 2 | 1981– | 1981–2015 |
| 313 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| note 1, 2 | no. 4 | no. 3 | |
| 321 | note 1 | 264/290 | 306/4 |
Corrections to 1st edition
The superseded lists below may be of use to owners of the first edition (1990). They include (but are not exhausted by) the corrections made in later impressions of that edition.
Errors in first (1990) Murray impression
| Page | Line | Correction / For | Read |
| v | 5 | carved | built |
| 99 | 2 | delete ‘Herder’ | |
| 100 | 15 | Maistre is usually included in the last category by historians. | Historians usually include Maistre among the conservatives. |
| 111 | 26–7 | exterminates him who will exterminate | will exterminate him who exterminates |
| 127 | 13–16 | In a simpler and no doubt much cruder form, but in substance precisely as Maistre taught it, it is the heart of all totalitarian doctrines. | In practice if not in theory (at times offered in a transparently false scientific guise), Maistre's deeply pessimistic vision is the heart of the totalitarianisms, of both left and right, of our terrible century. |
| 130 | 16 | mystic | mystic, |
| 156 | 12 | kings of Savoy, whom | House of Savoy, which |
| 157 | 2 up | Le | Les |
| 165 | 1 | where | whence |
Errors in first and second (1990) Murray impressions
| Page | Line | Correction / For | Read |
| 58 | 7 | Gottlob | Gottlieb |
| 111 | 25 | skin to make a whip for his child | tusks to make a toy for a child |
| 157 | n. 1, 11 | Countess | beautiful |
| 266 | s.v. Fichte | Gottlob | Gottlieb |
Errors in first, second and third (1991) Murray impressions
| Page | Line | Correction / For | Read |
| v | 9 | 1910 | 1900 |
| 23. | 23; see also p. xi below | ||
| x | 10 | On the | The |
| 8 | 7 up | La scienza | Scienza |
| 19 | 5–4 up | in the novel […] world | ‘has been, is and will be beautiful’ |
| 111 | 4 | dome | domain |
| 117 | 8 | quarters | breaks on the wheel |
| 11 | catches | carries off | |
| 190 | 5–6 | Karl Moor | Karl Moor |
| 199 | 10 | men | man |
| 213 | 12 | Krise | Krisen |
| 218 | 6 | nature is | nature’s |
| 220 | 11 up | proud | pure |
| 221 | 13 | humour | honour |
| 227 | 3–5 | ‘We must […] annex to it.’ | We must be a ‘quickening source of life’, not an ‘echo’ of it or an ‘annex’ to it. |
| 10 | disorder of our race … man is | disorders of our race – man is | |
| 13–14 | delete quotation marks | ||
| 228 | 14 up | delete quotation marks | |
| 231 | 11–9 up | delete all quotation marks | |
| 237 | 11 up | and that this leads | a fallacy that leads |
| 242 | 8–9 | past […] early | past. Armed Fichteans will appear … restrained neither by fear nor by greed … like those early |
| 274 | s.v. Schiller | 220–2 ... 190; | 190, 220–2, 230, 246, 251; |