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To: PatrickHenry

Modern dogma requires that we believe in Darwin and reject racism. This may not be so easy. Consider the alternate title of The Origin of the Species:

The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection
or
The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

"Favoured Races"? Tut-tut. If Darwin anticipated the scientific racism of the 1920s and 1930s, perhaps this too could be considered confirmation of his theories.


117 posted on 06/24/2005 8:17:38 PM PDT by ChessExpert
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To: ChessExpert
Consider the alternate title of The Origin of the Species: The Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection
or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

Consider reading beyond the title. You will learn that Darwin considered the term "race" to be a fuzzy construct, as difficult to apply as it was to determine when a village became a town; and he used "race" interchangeably with the term "species" and sometimes "sub-species."

128 posted on 06/25/2005 3:18:05 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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