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...English language in the late sixteenth century – and originally just meant ‘type’. ANGELA SAINI: People imagine that people have always thought about skin colour in this racialised way, and we really haven’t. That idea is no more than a few hundred years old. JONATHAN MARKS: It’s not really until the age of colonialism, in the seventeenth century, that you start...

...English Dictionary entry on consciousness.) It is only to the consciousness of these evils that knowledge and reflection awaken him (F.A. Kemble). We class sensations along with emotions, and volitions, and thoughts, under the common head of states of consciousness (Thomas Huxley). [Consciousness is] being aware of oneself as a distinct entity, separate from other people...

...English, French and American versions, so the reader will come across occasional references and allusions to developments which are out of context with the period when the essays were first written. I shall draw to your attention any that affect your reading of the shortened version of the essays. I also want to convey directly the flavour of the whole work, which has...