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Civilisation (UNABRIDGED) by EDWARD CARPENTER

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Civilisation (UNABRIDGED)

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by EDWARD CARPENTER

Length 8 hours 19 minutes

Language English

Narrators Taylor Wessel, Doris Mcknight, Robert Whitehead & Stanley Margo

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Summary

This publication, by English utopian socialist Edward Carpenter, describes civilisation as a sort of disease with which humanity is afflicted. Alongside this influential publication (originally published in 1889), are compiled other essays: Modern Science: A Criticism; The Science of the Future: A Forecast; Defence of Criminals: A Criticism of Morality; Exfoliation: Lamarck versus Darwin; Custom; A Rational and Humane Science; and The New Morality, plus Appendices (notes on various "Pre-Civilised peoples").

Essays Nonfiction