I wonder how he accommodated that to the Fuegian whom they took back to England, taught him to be a Perfect English Gentleman, and them dumped him back on the Terra in his double-breasted suit to civilize his relatives. I don’t know about “woke” and “presentist”, but it’s; true, the Victorians have a lot to answer for.
n
Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
From: Friam <[hidden email]> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2020 9:15 AM
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Subject: [FRIAM] darwin
The "woke" "presentists" are coming after Darwin:
"Despite his notional belief in abolition, Darwin believed whites were more evolved than “savage races,” whom they would—as an unfolding of natural selection—“exterminate and replace.” Oh, and he was a eugenicist: in The Descent of Man, he muses that it would be best to simply let the weak die."
davew
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