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The Universal Brotherhood of Man

Jahr

1849

Ort

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Nachweis

in: Newcastle Guardian 168 (28. April 1849), S. 6.

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VI.50
Dateiname: 1845-Alex_v_Humboldt-05-neu

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Weitere Fassungen
	Alex. v. Humboldt über das Menschengeschlecht (Augsburg, 1845, Deutsch)
	Volksstämme (Wien, 1845, Deutsch)
	Sur les races humaines et sur les langues, aperçus ethnographiques, extraits du Cosmos ou Essai d’une description physique du monde, par M. A. de Humboldt, tome Ier, dont la traduction française par M. Faye, revue par l’auteur et par MM. Arago, Élie de Beaumont et Guigniaut, paraîtra prochainement chez Gide (Paris, 1845, Französisch)
	De l’unité native de l’espèce humaine (Paris, 1846, Französisch)
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	On the Races of Man (Hartford, Connecticut, 1850, Englisch)
	On the races of man (London, 1850, Englisch)
	The univseral brotherhood of man (Edinburgh, 1850, Englisch)
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	[Kurzer Textauszug] (Sheffield, 1851, Englisch)
	Die Einheit des Menschengeschlechts (Breslau, 1852, Deutsch)
	Man – races – language (Edinburgh, 1853, Englisch)

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The Universal Brotherhood of Man.—While wemaintain the unity of the human species, we, at the sametime, repel the distressing assumption of superior andinferior races of men. There are nations more suscep-tible of cultivation, more highly civilized, more ennobledby mental cultivation than others—but none in them-selves nobler than others. All are in like degree designedfor freedom; a freedom which, in the ruder conditionsof society, belongs only to the individual; but which, insocial states, enjoying political institutions, appertainsas a right to the whole body of the community. If wewould indicate an idea which, throughout the wholecourse of history, has ever more and more widely ex-tended its empire—or which, more than any other, tes-tifies to the much contested and more misunderstoodperfectibility of the whole human race—it is that of es-tablishing our common humanity—of striving to removethe barriers which prejudice and limited views of everykind have erected among men, and to treat all mankind,without reference to religion, nation, or colour, as onefraternity, one great community, fitted for the attainmentof one object—the unrestrained development of the phy-sical powers. This is the ultimate and highest aim ofsociety, identical with the direction implanted by naturein the mind of man towards the indefinite extension ofhis existence. He regards the earth in all its limits, andthe heavens, as far as his eye can scan their bright andstarry depths, as inwardly his own; given to him as ob-jects for contemplation, and as a field for the develop-ment of his energies. Even the child longs to pass thehills or the seas which enclose his narrow home; yet whenhis eager steps have borne him beyond those limits, hepines, like the plant, for his native soil; and it is by this |Spaltenumbruch| touching and beautiful attribute of man—this longing forthat which is unknown, and this fond remembrance ofthat which is lost—that he is spared from an exclusiveattachment to the present. Thus deeply rooted in theinnermost nature of man, and even enjoined upon him byhis highest tendencies, the recognition of the bond ofhumanity becomes one of the noblest leading principlesin the history of mankind.—Humboldt’s Cosmos.

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