The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation J. Edwin Orr " To those in the

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offering a true Darwinian perspective on the evolution of consciousness

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The Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation J. Edwin Orr " To those in theJohn Hobson challenges the ethnocentric bias of mainstream accounts of the Rise of the West that assume that Europeans have pioneered their own development, and that the East has been a passive by stander. Describing the rise of what he calls the Oriental West, Hobson argues that Europe first assimilated many Eastern inventions, and then appropriated Eastern resources through imperialism. Hobson's book thus propels the hitherto marginalized Eastern