Passion Is the Gale Jay Hakes Director of the Centre for

Director of the Centre for Learning and Teaching

Buckingham

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Passion Is the Gale Jay Hakes Director of the Centre forThis book shows how the Age of Reason relied on emotion. At the outset of the eighteenth century, many British Americans accepted the notion that virtuous sociable feelings occurred primarily among the genteel, while sinful and selfish passions remained the reflexive emotions of the masses, from lower class whites to Indians to enslaved Africans. Yet by 1776 radicals would propose a new universal model of human nature that attributed the same feelings