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name: "George Forster on Reason and Feeling"
date: 2026-06-21
link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/20/george-forster-andrea-wulf/"
linkText: "themarginalian.org"
source: "The Marginalian"
topics: [words-and-humor]
tags: [science, emotion, enlightenment, philosophy]
description: "On the danger of worshipping cold reason at the expense of feeling."
---

> Never before has there been a greater danger of elevating cold reason into a universally worshipped idol at the expense of feeling.

— George Forster, 18th-century naturalist, from Andrea Wulf's new biography, via Maria Popova.