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To: allmendream
Can anyone supply a single quote where any Nazi leader (extra credit for Hitler) ever mentioned the word “evolution” in the context of Biological evolution, or ever used evolutionary rhetoric to whip up Jew hatred?

1a: Biological Evolution: (the word "evolution" appears 182 times in Mein Kampf.)

The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all. (Mein Kampf, Page 237, Paragraph 1. Emph. mine.)

1b:
If Nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.(238,1)
2:Evolutionary Rhetoric to whip up Jew hatred:
If we divide mankind into three categories--founders of culture, bearers of culture, and destroyers of culture--the Aryan alone can be considered as representing the first category. It was he who laid the groundwork and erected the walls of every great structure in human culture. (241,2)
The Jew offers the most striking contrast to the Aryan. (249, 3)
Now in case that logic was hard to follow, grant me the liberty to paraphrase Hitler here: Is he not basically saying that "The Aryan is the most superior race and the Jews are the most inferior race?"

Does that satisfy your request? Or am I ruled out of order for providing two quotes when you asked for a single quote? [wide grin]

That pdf I provide a link for is pretty nice reading. Hitler goes on for pages and pages about how inferior the Jews are and and how the superior races will be lost if the inferior races are not controlled. For example:

Since the inferior always outnumber the superior, the former would always increase more rapidly if they possessed the same capacities for survival and for the procreation of their kind; and the final consequence would be that the best in quality would be forced to recede into the background. Therefore a corrective measure in favour of the better quality must intervene. (237, 4)
(Another free biological reference for you, above.)

And intervene he did.

-Jesse

282 posted on 06/20/2008 1:55:09 AM PDT by mrjesse (Could it be true? Imagine, being forgiven, and having a cause, greater then yourself, to live for!)
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To: mrjesse
Interesting in that I have searched two different translation of Mein Kampf (Murphey translation and the Manhein translation) and the word evolution only appears once and it is in reference to “political” evolution.

“Here, again, the necessary foundation was lacking, namely, a definite Weltanschhauung, and these leaders also lacked that clear insight into the laws of political evolution which is a necessary quality in political leadership.”
Ch 10 paragraph 157.

Instead of giving page #’s which will be different in every published volume can you give Chapter and paragraph so I can track down the translation of these quotes and why they are different?

284 posted on 06/20/2008 6:27:11 AM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: mrjesse
The stronger must dominate and not mate with the weaker, which would signify the sacrifice of its own higher nature. Only the born weakling can look upon this principle as cruel, and if he does so it is merely because he is of a feebler nature and narrower mind; for if such a law did not direct the process of evolution then the higher development of organic life would not be conceivable at all. (Mein Kampf, Page 237, Paragraph 1. Emph. mine.)

Notice the difference in translation? Mine doesn't contain the word evolution.

The precondition for this does not lie in associating superior and inferior, but in the total victory of the former. The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he after all is only a weak and limited man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development of organic living beings would be unthinkable. Ch11 paragraph 5.

285 posted on 06/20/2008 6:32:49 AM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: mrjesse; Soliton
Hitler has many inspirations. The most important would be Plato’s Republic where just his sort of program was described more than 2000 years before Darwin.

Hey mrjesse, just for kicks, run that word counter for Mein Kampf on Plato and see what comes up, eh?
306 posted on 06/22/2008 12:11:03 AM PDT by Antoninus (Every second spent bashing McCain is time that could be spent helping Conservatives downticket.)
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