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Establishing a hierarchy for mankind

In the early 19^th century, societies judged rudimentary lost the virtuous image that Jean de Léry, Montaigne and Rousseau had given them. The ideology of progress labelled these Others as “primitive.” Science supported European domination of the world, contradicting the equality of all men decreed in the rush of revolutionary enthusiasm.