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AN INFAMOUS FASCIST COALITION:

DARWIN – HAECKEL – HITLER

Ernst Haeckel, the foremost representative of Charles Darwin and Social Darwinism in Germany,

made the following comment after reading The Origin of Species:

... [I] found in Darwin's great unified conception of nature and in his overwhelming foundation for the doctrine

of evolution the solution of all the doubts which had bothered me since the beginning of my biological studies. 1

Haeckel imagined that Darwin's book had lifted all his doubts, but was of course mistaken. The theo-

ry of evolution, formulated under the primitive conditions of the time, was unable to advance a valid,
consistent and (even more importantly) scientific explanation of how life began. In The Wonders of
Life, Haeckel summed up his irrational views regarding the human races that he had developed on the
basis of Darwinism:

Though the great differences in the mental life and the civilization of the higher and lower races of men are gen-
erally known, they are, as a rule, undervalued, and so the value of life at different levels is falsely estimated. …
[The] lower races (such as the Veddahs or Australian Negroes) are psychologically nearer to the mammals (apes
and dogs) than to civilized Europeans; we must, therefore, assign a totally different value to their lives. … The
gulf between [the] thoughtful mind of civilized man and the thoughtless animal soul of the savage is enormous

– greater than the gulf that separates the latter from the soul of the dog. 2

These claims of Haeckel's were devoid of any scientific foundation. Nonetheless, his beliefs were

adopted by a great many people as scientific fact. Haeckel also developed a kind of materialist belief
from the theory of evolution, which he gave the name monism.
This perverted idea entirely rejected the existence of the soul
and reduced everything to matter. Haeckel wrote:

... we are for the first time enabled to conceive of the unity of nature
... [so that we may have] a mechanico-causal explanation of even the
most intricate organic phenomena, [the result being that] the distinc-
tion between animate and inanimate bodies does not exist. ... [All nat-
ural phenomena, whether] a stone … thrown into the air ... [or] sul-
phur and quicksilver ... [uniting] in forming cinnabar ... [are] neither

more nor less a mechanical manifestation of life than the growth and
flowering of plants, than the propagation of animals or the activity of
their senses, than the perception or the formation of
thought in man. 3

In fact, Haeckel was deceiving himself by
imagining that he had found the answers to
many questions with a materialist perspective.
The materialist view, that there is no difference
between animate and inanimate bodies and

that everything has a mechanical explanation,
has been dealt a severe blow by scientific
progress and research carried out in the 21st
century, and its alleged scientific underpin-

Nazi doctors blindly carried out eugenic practices.
Instead of saving lives, they caused the deaths of millions.

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