Brian Smith, Law & Liberty
John M. Ellis traces how the modern belief in human equality—once unimaginable in earlier centuries—emerged slowly from a world divided by fear, conquest, and hierarchy. By following this transformation from 1500 to today, he argues that our conviction that “we are one family” is a hard-won moral achievement of Western thought, rooted in faith, philosophy, and the gradual expansion of sympathy across peoples and cultures.
