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A British military ceremony in India

stock; the relentless law of heredity will not be controlled and
guided by natural selection. Man will stagnate... The path of

progress is strewn with the wreck of nations; traces are everywhere
to be seen of the [slaughtered remains] of inferior races, and of vic-
tims who found not the narrow way to the greater perfection. Yet
these dead people are, in very truth, the stepping stones on which
mankind has arisen to the higher intellectual and deeper emotional
life of today. 71
This “world view” that regards most nations as inferior, and
their suffering and death as a step on the path to so-called evolu-
tion, poses a danger to all humanity. If individuals join forces to

depict an idea as scientific fact, no matter how dangerous or how
unscientific and illogical it may be, and engage in propaganda on
its behalf, then soon that idea and its byproducts will be accepted
by those who lack sufficient information on the subject in question.
This is where the hidden danger of Darwinism lies. People believ-
ing in concepts such as “the struggle for survival” and “conflict be-

tween superior and inferior races” carried out all kinds of ruthless

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