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Page 162: Darwinian ism helped lay the foundation for the bloodiest war in history, declared the pacifist William Jennings Bryan in the campaign to stir up Americans against evolutionary theory

Page 160
It would be A mistake to underestimate Darwinism played in fuelling the debate on sucide, and abortion

Page 114 scientific racism was not deducted from Darwinian theory, but it said an important function in Darwinian discourse as evidence increasing the plausibility of human evolution in short ways to help improve their theory on the other hand, Darwinism link greater plausibility to scientific racism, providing an explanation for the origins of races and their alleged in a quality

Page one 104 and 105 Darwin tried to show on the one hand, the animals, especially primate a primitive reading in power, speech immorality on the other hand. He explained that some races at much lower intellectual mole faculties, then European emphasises racial inequality that served as important function in Darwin’s attempt to bridge the chasm between primates and human.

Page 101 Oh, one, Potthoff clearly shared Darwin’s vision of happiness, increasing through the destruction of those and fit in the struggle for life. Potthoff view Siwa, the harsh and extreme to us today, but they were not at all the uncommon in the decades around 1900 many new genesis expressed similar ideas.

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Buchner and Kossman that the individual is far less important than the species was a common theme in the writings of German Darwinist around the turn of the 20th century

Wilhelm Preyer
Argued for the application of the Darwinian struggle for existence in human society. Page 80.