“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Jonathan Lamb on Objects

Jonathan is a distinguished professor of eighteenth-century studies. This is nice to read. Hi Jon! I used to edit Eighteenth-Century Studies, you see, and he was on the board.

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