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“Engels had read The Origin of Species and wrote to Marx about the book in December of 1859. Engels praised Darwin for his theoretical triumph over teleology in the organic sciences, but at the same time also cautioned Marx against Darwin’s ‘clumsy’ style and apparent lack of sophistication in philosophical matters.2 The following year, Marx himself read Darwin’s book, whereupon he immediately accepted the theory of natural selection as a scientific confirmation of his own ideas about human history. Darwin’s theory, he felt, with its emphasis on struggle and evolution in the natural world, was the perfect complement to his own theory of class struggle and historical development. Writing to Ferdinand Lassalle in January, 1861, Marx explained that ‘Darwin’s book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history.’ Of course, he added, echoing Engels’ comments of the previous year, ‘one [had] to put up with the crude English method of development.”
― The Scientific Origins of National Socialism
― The Scientific Origins of National Socialism
“It is an indication of how seriously Haeckel believed that the physical appearance of a person was a true measure of inward qualities when in 1899 he wrote to his friend, Frida von Uslar-Gleichen, with whom he was having a love affair: ‘Because from the moment when our two blond Germanic personalities confronted each other on the morning of June 17, and looked into each other’s true blue eyes, I knew that our souls were near akin.’ See Ernst Haeckel, The Love Letters of Ernst Haeckel (New York: Harper, 1930), p. 63.”
― The Scientific Origins of National Socialism
― The Scientific Origins of National Socialism
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