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encouraged them by describing them as "honorary
Aryans."
But what is the root of the racism which
forms the basis of all fascist regimes and
movements?
We shall consider the answer to that question
in this chapter.

Racism and Darwinism

In the earlier chapters of this book we saw The official founder of
that racism was a part of pagan culture, and that racism, Houston
Stewart Chamberlain.
although it had already largely been done away
with through the revelation of divine religion, it
returned to Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The greatest influence behind this new development was the replacement of
the Christian belief that "God created all people equal" with "Darwinism". By
suggesting that man had evolved from more primitive creatures, and that
some races had evolved further than others, Darwinism provided racism with
a scientific mask.
In short, Darwin is the father of modern racism. His theory was taken
up and commented on by such "official" founders of modern race theory as
Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and this racist ideology
that emerged was then put into practice by the Nazis and other fascists. James
Joll, who spent many years as a professor of history at universities such as
Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, explained the relationship between
Darwinism and racism in his book Europe Since 1870, which is still taught as a
textbook in universities:
Charles Darwin, the English naturalist whose books On the Origin of
Species, published in 1859, and The Descent of Man, which followed in
1871, launched controversies which affected many branches of
European thought… The ideas of Darwin, and of some of his
contemporaries such as the English philosopher Herbert Spencer,
…were rapidly applied to questions far removed from the immediate
scientific ones… The element of Darwinism which appeared most
applicable to the development of society was the belief that the excess
of population over the means of support necessitated a constant
struggle for survival in which it was the strongest or the 'fittest' who
won. From this it was easy for some social thinkers to give a moral