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applied to ethical understanding and social sciences. Darwin said the fol-
lowing to H. Thiel in a letter in 1869:
You will readily believe how much interested I am in observing that you
apply to moral and social questions analogous views to those which I
have used in regard to the modification of species. It did not occur to me
formerly that my views could be extended to such widely different, and
most important, subjects. 4
With the struggle in nature also being accepted as being in human
nature, conflicts in the name of
racism, Fascism, Communism,
and imperialism, and the efforts
of strong peoples to crush peo-
ples they perceived as weaker
were by now clothed in a scien-