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The making of humanity

by Robert Briffault

385 pages•about 8 h to read•Public domain

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Bringing together human origins, European civilization, moral order, and a proposed utopia, this philosophical study asks how social conditions shape humanity’s development. Reason, it argues, is learned gradually rather than arriving as a finished human faculty. Spain under Carlos II gives that argument a grim historical test, as rulers took pride in eliminating heresy while the country sank into misery.

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