Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… a significant improvement in the transformation of a species. Sociability marks the beginning of the enlightenment of mankind, and Darwin marveled at such a change in which he saw the very origin of man: ‘How Love and Sympathy the bosom warm, … plan, / And charm the listening Savage into Man’ (Darwin 18). In those lines, the distance between savagery and mankind is a distance in time, not in space. The people that Darwin considered as savages are not the indigenous populations of distant lands, but the primitive forms of mankind preceding the long series of biological transformations of the species through time. Savagery is not absent from the …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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