>But colonial empires, totalitarianism, the Panoptic
>state, etc are also fruits of the Enlightenment, as is
>Linguistics
We can especially note that it was in the Enlightenment that
racialist ideologies were systematized. Thinking here of Linnaeus'
classification of races into superior and inferior, various trees of
"Man" along same lines, Gobineau, and much more.