Among Savages, Far and Near
The work of Georg Forster is a sobering example of Enlightenment principles being tested against the contemporary world—across the globe on Captain Cook’s second circumnavigation, where Europeans met and clashed with Pacific islanders, and in the turmoil of the French Revolution, into which Forster was pitched as the chosen representative of Mainz, now annexed to France. In both phases of his extraordinary career, ideals struggle with harsh realities, first with colonialist attitudes, then with murderous factional politics. Where was the benevolent movement of history?
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