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 … Darwin, The Temple of Nature, or The Origin of Society (London: J. Johnson, 1803), p. 53. Despite his hostility to slavery, Darwin was resolutely optimistic, and confident that mankind was slowly on its way to the golden age. The Temple …
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