'Master race' Flunks test
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appears that the author nas biologist and radical read page one and no more reformer in the 1870s.
If he had persevered as. 'although he was no socialist far as Chapter VII he would and his philosophy was the have found that Darwin crudest form of materialism explicitly rejects Vogt's (Engels makes a scathing who admit the principle of have been far from approvevolution... will feel no ing of Vogt's views had they doubt that all the races of made any effort to learn The fascist writer's ignor- the fascist writer makes ance is not confined eto éome extravagant claims for Darwin hut extends alen to "Ennial Mooriniom, nud ita The August issue of the National Front's journal Spearhead contained an extremely distasteful article on Charles Darwin (No. 3 in a series on 'Great the NF's racialist views to Darwin in his book "The Descent of Man' The clumsiness of the attempt speaks volumes for the dismal intellectual level prevailing in the NF.
The anonymous author tries to foist upon Darwin the theory of Carl Vogt, that different human races were descended from different ancestral species.
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In fact, as the author himself admits, Vogt's volume of lectures was translated into English in 1864 and The Descent of Man' was not published until 1871.
• The author claims that Darwin's book 'refers constantly' to Vogt's work.
There are in fact 11 references in a total of 1031 pages (in the 1906 London edition). There are nearly 40 authors to whom Darwin refers more frequently.
If we were replying to a serious scientific contribution we would not stoop to point out that the author's reference to Vogt springs from, the fact that. Vogt's name appears on page one of Darwin's book.
In this case, however, it of Darwin's book..
view thus:
"Those naturalists man are descended from a them. single primitive stock."
his adopted favourite, Vogt.
Vogt was in fact active in the German revolutionary movement of 1847-9, and was removed from his professorship after the victory of reaction.
Exiled in Geneva for some years he later came to support. ‹ Haeckel, another theory Members of the NF's 'master race"?
There is little doubt that reference to him in AntiDuhring), the fascists would In a closing paragraph, descendant 'Sociology' which will have to be dealt with elsewhere.
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