The Hedgehog and the Fox

AUTHOR’S NOTE

MY THANKS ARE DUE TO Professor S. Konovalov and the Clarendon Press for permission to reproduce the portions of this essay which originally appeared in 1951 under a somewhat different title in the second volume of Oxford Slavonic Papers. I have considerably revised the original version, and added two further sections (VI and VII). I should like to thank Mr Richard Wollheim for reading the new sections and suggesting improvements, and Mr J. S. G. Simmons for supplying me with a valuable reference, and for his care in seeing the earlier version through the press.

Oxford, July 1953

I. B.

To the memory of Jasper Ridley