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With savages, the weak in body or mind In line with these statements, Darwin
are soon eliminated; and those that sur- regarded native Australians and blacks
vive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of as being at the same level as gorillas and
health. We civilised men, on the other
maintained that these races would even-
hand, do our utmost to check the process
tually become extinct. He also advoca-
of elimination; we build asylums for the
ted the need to prevent other races whom
imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we
he regarded as inferior from multiplying.
institute poor-laws; and our medical men
and that these races should therefore be
exert their utmost skill to save the life of
eradicated. Darwin thus approved of and
every one to the last moment. . . .Thus the
justified racist and discriminatory practi-
weak members of civilised societies pro-
pagate their kind. No one who has atten- ces, the remains of which can still be se-
ded to the breeding of domestic animals en today.
will doubt that this must be highly inju- According to Darwin’s racist ideas,
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