To: wagglebee
" THEY obviously felt it was significant." The aristocracy of Europe as well as the rest of the world needed a rational as to why they deserved a superior position in society. They really believed they were better than the lower classes (think about that label). What they heard in the theories of Natural Selection and Evolution gave them the reasons they needed. It gave them a name and some pseudo-scientific credibility. In reality they were oppressing the lower classes of their own countries and conquered lands centuries under the banner of nobility before they had a tidy scientific fig leaf..
To: Natural Law
The aristocracy of Europe as well as the rest of the world needed a rational as to why they deserved a superior position in society. They really believed they were better than the lower classes (think about that label). What they heard in the theories of Natural Selection and Evolution gave them the reasons they needed. It gave them a name and some pseudo-scientific credibility. In reality they were oppressing the lower classes of their own countries and conquered lands centuries under the banner of nobility before they had a tidy scientific fig leaf.. Precisely and they happily followed the Darwin family's lead on this even while they openly denounced evolutionary theory.
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wagglebee
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