Page 59 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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T T H E T E R R I B L E A L L I A N C E B E T W E E N D A R W I N A N D F A S C I S M 59
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Hitler, who thought that human beings were highly developed ani-
mals, believed that instead of allowing natural forces and chance, in a
word coincidence, to control evolution, it was necessary to take the man-
agement of it into his own hands to develop the human race. And this was
the ultimate aim of the Nazi movement. In order to realise this aim, the
first step was to separate, to isolate, the inferior races from the Aryan race,
the race they believed to be superior.
At this point the Nazis moved to the implementation of Darwinism,
and took as their example the "theory of eugenics" which itself had its ori-
gins in Darwinism.
The Theory of Eugenics Was Based on
Darwin's Ideas
The theory of eugenics, which emerged in the first half of the 20 th
century, meant the weeding out of sick and handicapped people and the
"improving" of the human race by increasing the number of healthy indi-
viduals. According to the theory of eugenics, in the same way that better
kinds of animals can be produced by mating healthy animals with each
other, so the human race could be improved in the same way.
As might be expected,
those who put forward the
eugenics programme were
Darwinists. At the head of the
eugenics wave in England
came Charles Darwin's cousin,
Francis Galton, and his son
Leonard Darwin.
It was clear that the idea
of eugenics was a natural
result of Darwinism. In fact,
this truth was awarded special
Francis Galton (left) and
Leonard Darwin (right).