Darwin's Sacred Cause: How a Hatred of Slavery Shaped Darwin's…

by Adrian Desmond, James R. Moore

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This book shows how science and polical and cultural values are mixed togethier. Darwin hated slavery to undermind slavery he wanted to show how the different races had started as one. in other words blacks and whites are not in any way different. Darwin was a careful and through scientist that followed the facts, and those facts led to natural section and sexual section as the force behind evolution. (

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Readers of Adrian Desmond and James Moore's earlier biography, Darwin (Michael Joseph, 1991) — and of Desmond's subsequent Huxley: From Devil's Disciple to Evolution's High Priest (Penguin, 1998) — will expect much from this new reading of Darwin's life and values. They will not be disappointed. In Darwin's Sacred Cause, Desmond and Moore assimilate the relevant secondary literature, but also go much further. They offer us a new reading of Darwin's life and scientific work, based on two well-known facts about him: he felt physical revulsion when confronted by cruelty and he loathed slavery.

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Adrian Desmond	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Moore, James R.	—	main author	all editions	confirmed
Moerdijk, Henk	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Explores the important influence of abolitionism and Darwin's hatred of slavery on the development of his theory of evolution, in a study that examines the scientist's theories about human origins and the moral center of his evolutionary work.

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