Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… of the species through time. Savagery is not absent from the eighteenth-century society, though: Darwin denounced slavery as an obstacle to the progress of mankind. Slavery is a counter-model of sociability as it is defined by Darwin: it is the refusal to sympathize with fellow-humans … the Age of Pasturage, the Age of Agriculture, the Age of Commerce (which was characterized by ‘luxury’ and ‘slave trade’) and the Age of Philosophy. The Age of Philosophy was yet to come; it was an idealized future without war and …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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