MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cecil Rhodes, Scientific Method, Social Darwinism

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 14
• Professor: Edmond Chang

Document Summary

1899 poem encouraging american occupation of the philippines. Go bind your sons to exile/to serve your captives" needs . Take up the white man"s burden/no tawdry rule of kings . You go make a sacrifice and leave your land to make life better for the natives. You take over their lands and resources for their own good. Many actually believed that they were doing good for the people they were exploiting and suppressing. Lord rosebery: the greatest secular agency for good the world has ever known . Cecil rhodes (1853-1902): we are the finest race in the world and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race. He made a fortune of diamond mines in africa. The science of race as a convenient rationale for empire. The empire of science in the late 19th c. Karl pearson"s advocacy of the scientific method in 1892. Corrective to the fallacies of theology and philosophy.