Banton, Michael. “Kingsley’s Racial Philosophy,”
Theology
Vol. LXXVIII, No. 655 (Jan., 1975): 22-30.
In this short examination of Kingsley's views on race Banton warns
of the danger of presentism, that is interpreting these views in terms
of the perspective and context of a later period. Some of Kingsley's
writings, declares Banton, have been considered with a presentism interpretation
and he himself "has at times been categorized as a racist by authors who
reflect very little before applying this highly elastic contemporary category
to people living in a period when the understanding of the biological nature
of man was very different" (22).
Racial
Prejudices;
Presentism;
Darwin;
Evolution. |
