Modern liberal-thinking people frequently attempt to paint conservatives as "racist," usually without proof. Progressives have attempted to justify and legitimize virtually every sin in the Book from homosexuality to abortion, from adultery to drug abuse (legalizing marijuana), from no-fault divorce to gambling. But racism is one of the few evils that somehow they still oppose.
Yet almost invariably these same liberals believe in evolution, apparently unaware of the racist implications tied to the history of evolutionary belief. Below are quotations from well-known evolutionists of the past excerpted from an article entitled "The Ascent of Racism," by Paul G. Humber, Impact No. 164, 2/1987.
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Staunch evolutionist, Sir Arthur Keith claims:
The German Fuhrer . . . consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.1
Elsewhere, Keith wrote:
The leader of Germany is an evolutionist, not only in theory, but, as millions know to their cost, in the rigor of its practice. For him, the national "front" of Europe is also the evolutionary "front;" he regards himself, and is regarded, as the incarnation of the will of Germany, the purpose of that will being to guide the evolutionary destiny of its people.2
...
In Hitler's Mein Kampf, he spoke of "lower
human types." He criticized the Jews for bringing "Negroes into the
Rhineland" with the aim of "ruining the white race by the necessarily
resulting bastardization." He spoke of "Monstrosities halfway between
man and ape" and lamented the fact of Christians going to "Central
Africa" to set up "Negro missions," resulting in the turning of
"healthy . . . human beings into a rotten brood of b------s." In his
chapter entitled "Nation and Race," he said, "The stronger must
dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only
the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he, after all, is only a weak and
limited man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher
development (Hoherentwicklung) of organic living beings would be
unthinkable." A few pages later, he said, "Those who want to live,
let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal
struggle do not deserve to live."3
DARWIN--A RACIST?
Present-day Darwinians, for the most part, do not want to be
identified with racism; so it is no wonder that some of Darwin's statements
touching on this area receive little attention. He spoke of the
"gorilla" and the "negro" [sic] as occupying evolutionary
positions between the "Baboon" and the "civilized races of
man" ("Caucasian"); viz:
...At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time, the anthropomorphous apes . . . will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro [sic] or Australian and the gorilla.4
Referring to On the Origin of Species, by Darwin,
Harvard University's Stephen Jay Gould wrote, "Biological arguments for racism
may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude
following the acceptance of evolutionary theory."6
...
AMERICAN BIOLOGISTS--RACISTS?
...
[Edwin G.] Conklin
was Professor of Biology at Princeton University from 1908 to 1933. He was also
President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1936
(the year of Hitler's Berlin Olympics). He wrote:
Comparison of any modern race with the Neanderthal or Heidelberg types shows that all have changed, but probably the negroid races more closely resemble the original stock than the white or yellow races.7 Every consideration should lead those who believe in the superiority of the white race to strive to preserve its purity and to establish and maintain the segregation of the races, for the longer this is maintained, the greater the preponderance of the white race will be.8
Henry Fairfield Osborn was a professor of biology and
zoology at Columbia University. For twenty-five years (1908-1933), he was
President of the American Museum of Natural History's Board of Trustees. Osborn
wrote:
The Negroid stock is even more ancient than the Caucasian and Mongolians, as may be proved by an examination not only of the brain, of the hair, of the bodily characteristics . . . but of the instincts, the intelligence. The standard of intelligence of the average adult Negro is similar to that of the eleven-year-old-youth of the species Homo Sapiens.9
In a book dedicated to John T. Scopes (the evolutionist
teacher made famous by the Scopes "monkey trial"), Osborn wrote:
...The ethical principle inherent in evolution is that only the best has a right to survive. . . 10
References
1 Sir Arthur Keith, Evolution
and Ethics (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947), p. 230.
2 Ibid., p. 10.
3 Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943), pp. 286, 295, 325, 402, 403, 285, 289
respectively.
4Charles Darwin, The
Descent of Man (London: John Murray, 1901), pp. 241-242.
5 Ibid., pp. 291-292.
6 Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny
and Phylogeny (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1977), p. 127.
7 Edwin G. Conklin, The
Direction of Human Evolution (New York: Scribner's, 1921), p. 34.
8 Ibid., p. 53.
9 Henry Fairfield Osborn,
"The Evolution of Human Races," Natural History, April 1980,
p. 129--reprinted from January/February 1926 issue.
10 Henry Fairfield Osborn, Evolution
and Religion in Education (London: Charles Scibner's Sons, 1926), p. 48.
11 Christ Mead, "Black
Hero in a White Land," cf. Sports Illustrated, September 16,
1985, p. 94.
12 Ibid., p. 92.
13 "Gazetteer,"The
Pennsylvania Gazette (University of Pennsylvania), April 1986, p. 19.
14 "Members Forum,"National
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