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not the right to exist." To think otherwise is to "insult" nature.
"Distress, misery and disease are her rejoinders." 99

With Social Darwinism, the ideology of conflict and warlike
hysteria grew stronger. Darwinist concepts were a very influential
catalyst that encouraged these trends and led to them being adopt-
ed by an entire society. For the first time, racism and a longing for
conflict thus found an alleged scientific foundation and were pre-
sented to society as an irrefutable fact. The writings of Dr. Albert
Edward Wiggam, an evolutionary theoretician during the Nazi era,

published in 1922, reflect one of "deceptions" most frequently
encountered in the world of German ideas of the time:
... at one time man had scarcely more brains than his [so-called]
anthropoid cousins, the apes. But, by kicking, biting, fighting … and
outwitting his enemies and by the fact that the ones who had not
sense and strength enough to do this were killed off, man's brain

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