Montesquieu versus Jared Diamond

Nada de Germes, armas ou aço. A chave da dominação européia nas Américas foram as idéias:

"Can it be said that this destruction, the greatest history has ever known, was only a simple effect of the ignorance of a principle of philosophy? It can, and I am going to prove it."

Montesquieu em The Motives That Ought to Encourage Us to the Sciences

(O texto todo é sensacional. Deve ficar ainda melhor no original.)

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