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These ideas advanced by Hitler and others like him were
products of a terrible ignorance. Those who imagined that with
the theory of evolution they were basing their militaristic and ag-
gressive thinking on a scientific foundation were merely deceiv-
ing themselves. Yet with the tens of thousands of people they
induced to follow them, they inflicted ruin on the world on an un-
precedented scale.
In an article titled “The Philosophy and Morals of War,” Max
Nordau—one of the leaders of the Zionist movement—identifies
Darwin as the primary supporter of war:
