Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… used the image of the social chain several times as well as the metaphor of weaving to describe it. However, contrary to Rousseau , according to whom man is born free, but is in fetters everywhere ( The Social Contract ), this social chain is … network of sociability extended far beyond the boundaries of the British Isles: Erasmus Darwin had met Jean-Jacques Rousseau , and his works were read by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck who was the author of a pioneering work of transformism in …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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