Both sides of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 used Darwinism as a rational.
When Cecil Rhodes established the famous Rhodes Scholarships it was for
uniting English-speaking peoples for greater racial development.
Theodore Roosevelt maintained that a racial war to the finish with
the Indians was inevitable and there should be a spread of
English-speaking people all over t
The ideas of racial supremacy and the survival of the fittest race
reached it's zenith with the National Socialist party of Nazi Germany.
The legacy of Haeckel and the Monist league turned many German
scientists to monism and atheism.
Adolf Hitler himself was a evolutionist.
His book "Mein Kemp" (My Struggle), which sold 11 million copies in 1944,
has a strong theme of the necessity of struggle, a struggle between
the races.
"The Jews formed a sub-human counter race, predestined by their biological
heritage to evil, just as the Nordic race was destined for nobility" ...
"History would culminate in a new millennial empire of unparalleled splendor,
based on a new racial hierarchy ordained by nature herself".
(Morris 1989, 78 - quoting Gann).
One has to ask - would Hitler act the way he did if he were a creationist?
Others in Nazi Germany were evolutionists as well.
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