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The child of many African races is scarcely if at all less intelligent than the
European child, but while the African as he grows up becomes stupid and
obtuse, and his whole social life falls into a state of hidebound routine, the
European retains much of his childlike vivacity. 16
The French Darwinist anthropologist Vacher de Lapouge suggested,
in his work titled Race et Milin Social Essais d'Anthroposociologie (Paris
1909) that non-white classes were the descendants of savages who had not
learnt to be civilised, or else the degenerate representatives of mixed-
blood classes. He produced results by measuring the skulls from Paris'
upper and lower classes in graveyards. According to his results, depend-
ing on their skulls some people were inclined to be rich, self-confident,
and free, and others conservative, content with little, and possessing all
the qualities of a good servant, classes were the products of social selec-
tion, society's upper classes went together with superior races, the degree
of wealth was in proportion to the skull index. Lapouge later made a
prophesy, "It is my view that in years to come people will kill each other
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because their heads are round or pointed," he said , and this prophesy
came true, as we shall see in detail in later pages of this book, and the 20 th
century saw massacres carried out for reasons of racism…!
And it was not only anthropologists: entomologists (those who study
insects) also jumped on the racist bandwagon that Darwinism had set in
motion with unbelievable claims. For example, in the year 1861, one Eng-
lish entomologist arrived at the conclusion, after collecting lice that lived
on peoples' bodies in different parts of the world, that the lice of one race
could not live on the bodies of another, which when looked at from the sci-
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entific level of today, is just plain ridiculous. When even people with the
status of scientists made such announcements, it was not surprising that
some dogmatic racists should use such illogical, unintelligent, and com-
pletely meaningless slogans as "even Negroes' lice are Negro."
In short, the racist side to Darwin's theory found very fertile ground
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in the second half of the 19 century. Because at that time the European
"white man" was still waiting for such a theory to justify his own crimes.