![]() ![]() Still, if the devil has all the best tunes, it makes a welcome change to read such a sustained and enjoyable tribute to our better natures. ![]() There will always be a battle between our altruistic and selfish instincts, our openness and our protectiveness – it is the very stuff of human drama. But it seems equally misleading to offer the false choice of Rousseau and Hobbes when, clearly, humanity encompasses both. There’s a great deal of reassuring human decency to be taken from this bold and thought-provoking book and a wealth of evidence in support of the contention that the sense of who we are as a species has been deleteriously distorted. despite the almost bewildering array of characters and information, Bregman never loses sight of his central thesis. And, like the Canadian populariser, he’s not afraid to take his audience on a digressive journey of discovery. Bregman has a Gladwellian gift for sifting through academic reports and finding anecdotal jewels. ![]()
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