Darwin’s evolution carried Christian linear filiation into natural universal History

Evidence

This chain of Christian filiation, however, would no longer be considered absolute at the mornent that another continuous sequence, this time based on science, inscribed the human race within the network of evolution. In the end this network is only an objectivized vision of the oid filiation, applied not to the legitimacy of an ethnie community but to the natural universality of aIl known species. … At that moment the generalization inspired by Christ was picked up by Darwin’s generalizing theory, though initially they opposed each othee Both were concerned with transcending the old mythical filiation linked to the destiny of a community, to go beyond this with a universalizing notion that would retain, however, the power of the principle of linearity and that “grasped” and justified History. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 292

Categorization

• XREF: Chimes with the reader’s interest in how metaphysical grounding shifts from the sacred to the scientific while linearity persists — relevant to strategic essentialism’s claim about underwriting identities. — connects to: Darwinism fused inherited hierarchy with a doctrine of progress — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 472
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Glissant see scientific evolutionism, like Christian history, as a Western totalization that relation must resist?

Broader Connections

• Darwinism fused inherited hierarchy with a doctrine of progress #expands (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 472