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48 FASCISM: THE BLOODY IDEOLOGY OF DARWINISM

Charles Darwin Paul Broca
Francis Galton

Francis Galton, Charles Darwin's cousin, was influenced by Darwin and the French
physicist Paul Broca, himself another evolutionist. Galton put forward the theory
of "eugenics," which suggested that some races were superior to others and that
the strong should be kept uncontaminated by the weak.

book In the Minds of Men, in which he considers the social effects of Darwinism:
He [Galton] was now left with the claim that certain races were
inherently superior and that their superiority was fixed forever from
the past as well as into the future… The conclusion to Galton's
argument then followed that, for the sake of mankind's future,
pollution of the precious superior gene pool by interbreeding with
inferior stock had to be stopped at all costs. 25
Galton proposed that legal measures needed to be taken to prevent
"inferior races polluting the superior." In his view, marriages needed to be
legally regulated. To name his racist-evolutionist theory, Galton looked to the
pagan world which had once practiced the same ideology. It was Galton who
coined and first used the word "eugenics," from the Greek for "good birth."
Inevitably, those who believed in Darwinism, also believed in eugenics.
Finally, the Eugenics Education Society was established in 1907, based at the
statistics department of University College, London. In 1926, the name was
simplified, and it became the "Eugenics Society."
The Eugenics Society maintained that all handicapped people should be