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Of course, this claim is totally unfounded. That people
have different skin colors or different racial or ethnic origins

doesn't make them superior or inferior to anyone else. One main
reason why this deception became prevalent in the 19th century
was the widespread ignorance of the time, itself due to the prim-
itive scientific conditions.
Another example of a scientist known for his racist views
was Princeton University's American biologist Edwin G.
Conklin who, like other racists, had no qualms about openly ex-
pressing his perverted opinions:
Comparison of any modern race with the Neanderthal or
Heidelberg types show that... Negroid races more closely resem-
ble the original stock than the white or yellow races. Every con-
sideration should lead those who believe in the superiority of the
white race to strive to preserve its purity and to establish and
maintain the segregation of the races. 40
William Sollas, a professor of paleontology and geology
from Oxford University, set out his views in his 1911 book

Ancient Hunters:
Justice belongs to the strong, and has been meted out to each race
according to its strength ... It is not priority of occupation, but the
power to utilize, which establishes a claim to the land. Hence it is
a duty which every race owes to itself, and to the human family as
well, to cultivate by every possible means its own strength: di-
rectly it falls behind in regard it pays to this duty, whether in art
of science, in breeding or in organisation for self-defence, it oc-
curs a penalty which Natural Selection, the stern but beneficent
tyrant of the organic world, will assuredly exact, and that speed-
ily, to the full. 41
To say that justice belongs to the strong—a grave error—
will lead to terrible social chaos. No matter what the conditions

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