"Exactly what Narendra did between the ages of seventeen and nineteen, where he went and why, remains obscure. Scraps …"

"Taxonomic systems of the past—particularly those found in , biology, and geology—are now seen to be one of the most i…"

"Darwin was a traveler, a family man, a thinker, a much-loved husband, father, friend, and neighbor—a likeable and gen…"

"The great majority of British naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in fact considered foreign organ…"

"For him scholarship had been a refuge: he valued literature not as a reflection of reality, but as an escape route fr…"

"'Not that there was anything particularly wrong with Marxism as a concept,' McWhinnie grinned. 'It just didn’t work i…"

"He had long ago abandoned the idea that there was any point in reading books. Perfectly uselessthat was their essenti…"

"The importance of war and military institutions has been generally neglected in British historical writing, whose ton…"

"[T]he essential and constant factor common to all three national academies [in Britain, France and America] is the in…"

"Of course I entirely agree...that the British plight consists in a low-wage, low-investment, low-productivity economy…"