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state of that philosophy as adapted to nature.
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Darwinism emerged in the 19 century as the restating of a myth,
dating back to the Sumerians and Ancient Greece, by the amateur biolo-
gist Charles Darwin, and has since then formed the fundamental idea
behind all the ideologies that have been harmful to mankind. Wearing a
so-called scientific mask, it allowed these ideologies and their supporters'
practical measures to win a false legitimacy.
By means of this false legitimacy the theory of evolution soon left the
fields of knowledge of biology and palaeontology and began to comment on
fields from human relations to history, and to influence fields from politics
to social life. Because some particular claims of Darwinism supported sev-
eral currents of thought which began to come into motion and take shape in
the 19 century, it gained wide support from these circles. In particular, peo-
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ple began trying to apply the idea that there is a "fight for survival" among
living creatures in nature, and as a result, the idea that "the strong survive,
the others are defeated and disappear" began to be applied to human
thought and behaviour. When Darwinism's claim that nature was a place of
struggle and conflict began to be applied to human beings and societies,
Hitler's deviation of building a master race, Marx's claim that "the history of
mankind is the history of class struggle," capitalism's provision for the
"strong growing even stronger at the expense of the weak," the colonisation
of third world countries by such imperialist nations as Britain and their suf-
fering inhuman treatment, together with the fact that coloured people still
face racist attacks and discrimination, all found some kind of justification.
Despite his being an evolutionist, Robert Wright, the author of the
book The Moral Animal summarises the disasters that the theory of evolu-
tion has brought to the history of mankind in this way:
Evolutionary theory, after all, has a long and largely sordid history of appli-
cation to human affairs. After being mingled with political philosophy
around the turn of the century to form the vague ideology known as
"social Darwinism," it played into the hands of racists, fascists, and the
most heartless sort of capitalists. 1
As will be seen in this book and from the evidence it contains, Darwin-