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According to eugenicists, the elderly were also
weak individuals needing to be eliminated. No re-
spect or love was shown to them, and it was be-
lieved they needed to be removed from society.

tle of life than the less gifted; and that without it, people would sink into indolence. 107

With these distorted theories, Darwin laid the groundwork for eugenic practices. The theory of evolu-
tion being regarded as so-called scientific fact led to eugenist and racist policies being accepted and put in-
to practice.

Eugenics in Great Britain

As already mentioned, the leader of eugenics was Darwin's cousin Francis Galton, but Leonard

Darwin, Darwin's own son, was also one of the supporters and proponents of eugenics in Britain. Winston
Churchill was another who lent the movement his support. 108
Galton maintained that the principle of the "survival of the fittest" had to be complied with and that
only the strongest should be allowed to participate in the world. According to Galton's unscientific and il-
logical thesis, humanity was in a position to take control of its own evolution and even to produce a mas-

ter race. Galton openly stated his belief in the superiority of the "master class" and the "master race." He
also claimed that blacks possessed a low level of intelligence, saying:

… the number among the negroes of those whom we should call half-witted men, is very large. Every book al-
luding to negro servants in America is full of instances. I was myself much impressed by this fact during my

travels in Africa. The mistakes the negroes made in their own matters, were so childish, stupid, and simpleton-
like, as frequently to make me ashamed of my own species. 109

Galton went so far as to suggest that various breeds of dogs were higher in intellect than some races of
human. 110 But in his evaluation of blacks and slaves, he ignored one very evident truth: that the great ma-
jority of books about slaves were written by slave owners. In addition, since slaves were immersed in a so-
ciety entirely foreign to them, in a culture of which they knew nothing, naturally much of their behavior

and actions should seem ignorant. Clearly, any European taken to live in an African village would exhibit
the same sort of incompetence in trying to adapt to a foreign culture and way of life.

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