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Darwinist Racists'
Inhuman Policies
The Extermination of the
Aborigines
The natives of Australia are
known as aborigines. These people
who had lived on the continent for
thousands of years suffered one of the
biggest exterminations in history with
the spreading of European settlers
over the country. The ideological basis
of this extermination was Darwinism.
Darwinist ideologues' views of the
aborigines formed the theory of the
savagery these people suffered.
In 1870 Max Muller, an evolution-
ist anthropologist from the London
Anthropological Review, had divided
human races into seven categories.
Aborigines appeared at the bottom,

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Europeans, at the top. H. K. Rusden, a
famous Social Dar-
The natives
of Australia, winist, had this to
the aborig- say about the abo-
ines, were
rigines in 1876:
seen as an
undeveloped The survival of the
human fittest means that
species by
might is right. And we
the evolu-
thus invoke and
tionists and
were massa- remorselessly fulfil
cred. the inexorable law of