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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