Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without MastersHarvard University Press, 30 Jun 2009 - 304 halaman Cannibals All! got more attention in William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator than any other book in the history of that abolitionist journal. And Lincoln is said to have been more angered by George Fitzhugh than by any other pro-slavery writer, yet he unconsciously paraphrased Cannibals All! in his House Divided speech. Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only the new fashionable name for slavery, though slavery was far more humane and responsible, the best and most common form of socialism. His most effective testimony was furnished by the abolitionists themselves. He combed the diatribes of their friends, the reformers, transcendentalists, and utopians, against the social evils of the North. Why all this, he asked, except that free society is a failure? The trouble all started, according to Fitzhugh, with John Locke, a presumptuous charlatan, and with the heresies of the Enlightenment. In the great Lockean consensus that makes up American thought from Benjamin Franklin to Franklin Roosevelt, Fitzhugh therefore stands out as a lone dissenter who makes the conventional polarities between Jefferson and Hamilton, or Hoover and Roosevelt, seem insignificant. Beside him Taylor, Randolph, and Calhoun blend inconspicuously into the American consensus, all being apostles of John Locke in some degree. An intellectual tradition that suffers from uniformity--even if it is virtuous, liberal conformity--could stand a bit of contrast, and George Fitzhugh can supply more of it than any other American thinker. |
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... fact was that the very aspects of " free society " that Fitzhugh most fiercely attacked , the aspects he repeatedly prophesied would spell the doom and downfall of that sys- tem , were the features that flourished most exuberantly in ...
... fact was that the very aspects of " free society " that Fitzhugh most fiercely attacked , the aspects he repeatedly prophesied would spell the doom and downfall of that sys- tem , were the features that flourished most exuberantly in ...
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... facts , and argument , and rhetoric , and wit , and sarcasm , succeed each other with rapid iteration . " 20 More serious was the damaging admission he made in a personal letter to his friend Professor Holmes in 1855. " I assure you ...
... facts , and argument , and rhetoric , and wit , and sarcasm , succeed each other with rapid iteration . " 20 More serious was the damaging admission he made in a personal letter to his friend Professor Holmes in 1855. " I assure you ...
Halaman xviii
... facts from them . . . The path of safety is the path of duty ! Edu- cate the people , no matter what it may cost ! " 25 • After disposing of the classical economists to his satisfac- tion , Fitzhugh turned to the socialists . He was ...
... facts from them . . . The path of safety is the path of duty ! Edu- cate the people , no matter what it may cost ! " 25 • After disposing of the classical economists to his satisfac- tion , Fitzhugh turned to the socialists . He was ...
Halaman xix
... fact . " Men's minds were heated and blinded when they were writ- ten , as well by patriotic zeal , as by a false philosophy , which , beginning with Locke , in a refined materialism , had ripened on the Continent into open infidelity ...
... fact . " Men's minds were heated and blinded when they were writ- ten , as well by patriotic zeal , as by a false philosophy , which , beginning with Locke , in a refined materialism , had ripened on the Continent into open infidelity ...
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... fact , was a record not of progress but of retrogression . He advanced the theory in his Sociology that " the world has not improved in the last two thousand , probably four thousand years , in the science or practice of medicine , or ...
... fact , was a record not of progress but of retrogression . He advanced the theory in his Sociology that " the world has not improved in the last two thousand , probably four thousand years , in the science or practice of medicine , or ...
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