1965年,以赛亚·伯林心情焦虑,坐立不安地等在华盛顿国家美术馆,丝毫不怀疑接下来的梅隆系列讲座是场可怕的失败。这系列演说被命名为《浪漫派思想的来源》。一年后,该讲座在BBC广播电台播出,获得了巨大成功。他缺乏罗尔斯或哈特所具有的那种进行持久的抽象说明的能力,却能以敏锐的洞察以及凝练的概括能力,自如进入到他能够理解的思想家的头脑及作品中,也能全景式地掠过某个笼统的主题。 In 1965, Isaiah Berlin was in a state of anxiety and restlessly waiting at the National Gallery in Washington without any doubt as to the terrible failure of the following Mellon series. This series of speeches was named “the source of romantic thought.” A year later, the lecture was broadcast on the BBC radio station with great success. He lacked the ability of Rawls or Hart to provide enduring abstractions, but with keen insight and concise abilities, he freely entered the minds and works of his understandable thinkers, Swept past a general theme.