ENGB35H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Alienation, Terra Nullius
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Engb35 lecture 7 continuation of robinson crusoe. The true symbol of the british conquest is robinson crusoe. Anglo-saxon spirit is in crusoe, the manly independence and the unconscious cruelty; the persistence; the slow but efficient intelligence; the sexual apathy; the practical, well-balanced religiousness, the calculating taciturnity (james joyce) Our restless adventurer was soon punished for his incurable discontent and for his unjust purpose in enslaving his fellow men (the little robin crusoe: 1840) I am monarch of all i survey; my right there is none to dispute; from the centre all round to the sea; i am lord of the fowl and the brute. (william. Right of possession: part of god"s plan for him. God gave [the world] to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour. Terra nullius (nobody"s land); doctrine of discovery was to be his title to it) . Sometimes i fancied it must be the devil i presently concluded then, that it.
