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ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN
ROMANTICISM: A WEAPON OF SATAN

"Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny," that
mammals replicate the process of evolution
in their embryonic development. (Years later
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it was realized that this theory was
unfounded and that Haeckel had even
falsified his charts and diagrams.)
Haeckel founded the "Monist League,"
an association whose aim was the
propagation of atheism, and which, at the
same time, became a centre of racism and
romantic nationalism. In the 1920's, the Nazi Another book by
movement, which was then developing Gasman, seen above,
treats the growth of
under the leadership of Hitler, was Social Darwinism in
influenced by the ideas of Haeckel and the Germany in more detail.
"Monist League." The historian Daniel Gasman, writing of these
developments in The Scientific Origins of National Socialism: Social
Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the German Monist League, said:
...[R]acially inspired social Darwinism in Germany… was almost
completely indebted to Haeckel for its creation… His ideas served to
unite into a full-bodied ideology the trends of racism, imperialism,
romanticism, anti-Semitism and nationalism… It was Haeckel who
brought the full weight of science down hard on the side of what
were Volkism's essentially irrational and mystical ideas. 8
Gasman also wrote:
It may be said that if Darwinism in England was an extension of
laissez faire individualism projected from the social world to the
natural world, [in Germany it was] a projection of German
romanticism and philosophical idealism… The form which social
Darwinism took in Germany was a pseudo-scientific religion of
nature worship and nature-mysticism combined with notions of
racism. 9
In the same vein, Janet Biehl wrote that "Haeckel was also a
believer in mystical racism and nationalism, so that German social