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even murder. In any society where the number of people deceived
by such a twisted conception increases, then order and stability

will be out of the question.
One of the most striking instances of the damage that
Darwinist propaganda inflicted on the human soul appears in the
preface to Dawkins' book Unweaving the Rainbow:
A foreign publisher of my first book confessed that he could not
sleep for three nights after reading it, so troubled was he by what he
saw as its cold, bleak message. Others have asked me how I can bear
to get up in the mornings. A teacher from a distant country wrote me
reproachfully that a pupil had come to him in tears after reading the
same book, because it had persuaded her that life was empty and
purposeless. He advised her not to show the book to any of her
friends, for fear of contaminating them with the same nihilistic pes-
simism. 166