Page 28 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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and progressed more than others. Some of them, in fact, were pretty much
at the same level as monkeys.
Darwin claimed that the "fight for survival" also applied between
human races. "Favoured races" emerged victorious from this struggle.
According to Darwin the favoured race were the European whites. As for
Asian and African races, they had fallen behind in the fight for survival.
Darwin went even further: these races would soon completely lose the
world-wide fight for survival and disappear, he claimed.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the
civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the
savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomor-
phous apes … will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and
his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a
more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some
ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian
and the gorilla. 8
Again in another part of The Origin of Species, Darwin claimed that it
was necessary for the inferior races to disappear and that there was no
need for developed peoples to try to protect them and keep them alive.
He compared this situation to people who raised breeding animals:
With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those
that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men,
on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we
build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-
laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every
one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has pre-
served thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have suc-
cumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propa-
gate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic ani-
mals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. 9
As we have seen, in his book The Origin of Species Darwin saw the
natives of Australia and Negroes as being at the same level as gorillas and
claimed that these races would disappear. As for the other races which he