NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Steamboat, Rapidfire, Master Control
5 Jan 2016
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Were looking to implant morals" and decency" in these savage lands. Superstitious and ignorant cultures will be replaced by scientific knowledge by civilizing them. Many with no scientific knowledge were also thought to be behing technologically so that would need to be taught as well. Reverend john cumming: we can upset the whole theology of the. Non-western cultures had different timekeeping methods from europeans; did not rely on clock time of europeans they were seen time wasters; lazy and unpunctual when it came to. Work . specially in hot climates where people took naps in the afternoon which made them look lazy to europeans inability to create simple european timekeeping devices seen as evidence of their lack of mathematical or scientific aptitude. Western peoples these ideas contrary to cultures that advocated a more balanced relationship between individual and nature, respect for nature these non western societies were seen as ignorant as they were wasting the raw materials.
