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Harun Yahya

The American Civil War (1861-1865) between the
northern states, who demanded that slavery be abol-
ished, and the southern states, who wanted it to con-
tinue. The idea of the superiority of the white race became a casus belli, and
for four years, countrymen were to fight against one another. Slavery was final-
ly abolished in the United States when the North emerged victorious.

shows me one way, and one way only, in which a high state of civilization has been produced, namely, the
struggle of race with race, and the survival of the physically and mentally fitter race. 68

Twisted statements like these provided imperialism with an allegedly scientific backing. The

Europeans who occupied the African continent and a large part of Asia, as well as persecuting the
Australian native peoples, claimed that their occupations were based on natural law and the only way
for humanity to progress. (That this claim had no foundation was later proven by subsequent advances
in the scientific world.) According to Pearson, wars formerly conducted in an unconscious manner

would now have to be waged in a conscious, pre-planned fashion:

There is a struggle of race against race and of nation against nation. In the early days of that struggle it was
a blind, unconscious struggle of barbaric tribes. At the present day, in the case of the civilized white man, it
has become more and more the conscious, carefully directed attempt of the nation to fit itself to a continu-
ously changing environment. The nation has to foresee how and where the struggle will be carried on... I

have asked you to look upon the nation as an organized whole in continual struggle with other nations,
whether by force of arms or by force of trade and economic processes. I have asked you to look upon this
struggle of either kind as a not wholly bad thing; it is the source of human progress throughout the world's
history. 69

In the 19th century, this deviant belief that conflict between races and nations was a path to progress
and which regarded races and nations other than its own as "inferior," took control over large parts of

the world. Some imperialist Europeans behaved most ruthlessly towards the inhabitants of their con-
quered lands. From the measures they adopted, it was evident that they regarded these peoples as weak
and inferior, denigrated them, and refused to accept them as humans who enjoyed equal rights with

themselves. The new imperialism was a 19th-century implementation of Social Darwinism on a world
scale.
One reason why Darwinist ideas received such wide support was that Europeans of the time had
moved away from religious moral values, which require people to live in peace. God has commanded
people to be tolerant and forgiving toward one another. Corrupting order in the world and inciting war

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