Anthropology and Race in Belgium and the Congo (1839-1922) by Maarten Couttenier;

Author:Maarten Couttenier;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)
Published: 2024-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Moreover, Firmin was also very clear about underlying motives:

Is this doctrine of platonic inspiration? Certainly not. It is rooted in the worst form of egocentrism: Europeans usurp the concept of civilization and debase the most beautiful scientific ideas in order to support their greed and justify their reprehensible materialism.

(Firmin 1885, 567)

The thirst to colonize, legitimized by science, had become the dominate passion in European politics:

Thus economists, philosophers, and anthropologists become adept at constructing lies, misusing both nature and science for purpose of propaganda. In fact, by doing so, they are merely pursuing, in the intellectual and moral sphere, the same abominable results achieved by the former colonizers who succeeded so well in rendering Yellow and Black slaves mindless through sheer physical exhaustion.

(Firmin 1885, 570)

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