Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement.
It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-class humanitarianism. Pity, sympathy and compassion lie at the centre of his moral vision. Values associated with the feminine begin to infiltrate social existence as a whole, rather than being confi