The Discovery of Chance: The Life and Thought of Alexander Herzen, by Aileen M. Kelly
Robin Feuer Miller on a 19th-century Russian who was part of a line of thinkers from Francis Bacon to Charles Darwin
Robin Feuer Miller on a 19th-century Russian who was part of a line of thinkers from Francis Bacon to Charles Darwin
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