the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Henri-Louis Bergson : 

'Taxi driver Herbert Hodge...knew that years on the dole only produced apathy, and that out of work men wanted practical help in dealing with the Board of Guardians far more than ideology. That experience plus his eclectic reading (Bergson, Nietzsche, William McDougall, Bertrand Russell, the new Testament, and Herbert Spencer as well as Marx) led him out of the [Communist] Party towards a socialism that would be brought about by individual volition...'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Herbert Hodge      Print: Book

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