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               verted idea entirely rejected the existence of the soul and reduced
               everything to matter. Haeckel wrote:
                   ... we are for the first time enabled to conceive of the unity of nature
                   ... [so that we may have] a mechanico-causal explanation of even
                   the most intricate organic phenomena, [the result being that] the
                   distinction between animate and inanimate bodies does not exist. ...
                   [All natural phenomena, whether] a stone … thrown into the air ...
                   [or] sulphur and quicksilver ... [uniting] in forming cinnabar ...
                   [are] neither more nor less a mechanical manifestation of life than
                   the growth and flowering of plants, than the propagation of ani-
                   mals or the activity of their senses, than the perception or the for-
                   mation of thought in man. 3
                                                   In fact, Haeckel was deceiv-
                                              ing himself by imagining that he
                                              had found the answers to many
                                               questions with a materialist per-
                                               spective. The materialist view,
                                               that there is no difference be-
                                               tween animate and inanimate
                                                bodies and that everything has
                                                a mechanical explanation, has






                                                                  Nazi doctors
                                                                  blindly imp-
                                                                  lemented
                                                                  eugenicist
                                                                  practices,
                                                                  causing the
                                                                  deaths of
                                                                  millions
                                                                  when they
                                                                  should have
                                                                  been saving
                                                                  lives.





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