SOURCE: “Fox and Hedgehog,” in The Times Literary Supplement, No. 2703, November 20, 1953, p. 743.

In the following essay, the reviewer contemplates Berlin's distinction between “foxes” and “hedgehogs.”

There are artists, historians and philosophers whose processes of thinking, feeling and creating seem to range far and wide over the infinite variety and multiplicity of experience without seeking to find a single focal point round which to organize their creation, a single all-illuminating vision. There are artists, historians and philosophers for whom this single point, this single vision, dominates and permeates everything they think and feel and create, prophets dedicated to one coherent view of life, to one consistent aim or purpose. This contrast between, so to speak, the centrifugal and centripetal types of human thinking is picturesquely portrayed by Mr. Isaiah Berlin in the symbolism of The Fox and the Hedgehog—the title which he has given to his revised version...