He was an erudite wit at the kal geons dinner table and, as the reader now sees, in his letters.But he was a thinker first, and for his thought there is no substitute for his essays.

• 伯林暗示思想家和政治家们应当承认这些冲突，而非用教条原理加以压制或专横地试图使其中的某些考虑屈从于另一些。