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dren in particular were actually closer to animals.
Someone who regards his wife and children as an inferior

species will of course feel little affection for them, make
few sacrifices on their behalf, and take no interest in them
for as long as it is to his advantage not to do so. In fact,
Darwin's statements show once again that there is no room
for human love, closeness and friendship in Darwinian
morality.
Darwin claimed that men were superior to women:
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two
sexes is shown by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in
whatever he takes up, than can women—whether requir-
ing deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely the use
of the senses and hands. If two lists were made of the most
eminent men and women in poetry, painting, sculpture,
music, ... history, science, and philosophy ... the two lists
would not bear comparison. We may also infer, from the
law of the deviation from averages, so well illustrated by
Mr. Galton, in his work on "Hereditary Genius" that if men
are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in
many subjects, the average of mental power in man must

be above that of women. 144

A human being is an entity with a
soul breathed into him or her by
God, and who therefore posses-
ses such feelings as love, affecti-
on, compassion and respect.