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D D A R W I N ' S R A C I S M A N D C O L O N I A L I S M 27
D arwin's close friend Professor Adam Sedgwick was
one of the people who saw what dangers the theory
of evolution would give rise to in the future. He
remarked, after reading and digesting The Origin of
Species, that "if this book were to find general public acceptance, it
would bring with it a brutalisation of the human
race such as it had never seen before." And truly,
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time showed that Sedgwick was right to have
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doubts. The 20 century has gone down in history
as a dark age when people underwent massacres
simply because of their race or ethnic origins.
Of course, there were discrimination and
eradication based on it in human history long
before Darwin. But Darwinism lent this discrim-
ination a false scientific respectability and a
false rightfulness. Professor Adam Sedgwick
"The Preservation of Favoured Races..."
Most Darwinists in our day claim that Darwin was never a racist but
that racists comment on Darwin's ideas in a biased manner for the pur-
pose of supporting their own views. They claim that the expression "By
the Preservation of Favoured Races" in the subtitle to The Origin of Species is
used only for animals. However, what those who make this claim ignore
is what Darwin says about human races in his book.
According to the views put forward by Darwin in this book, human
races represent different stages of evolution, and some races have evolved