Word: darwinism
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...that from bases which the Japanese already control they can bomb most of China, all of Burma, a quarter of India, all of The Netherlands East Indies (including the Allies' present naval headquarters, Surabaya) and a big piece of Australia (including the Allies' likeliest next naval headquarters, Darwin...
Though evolutionists have long since modified and refined Darwin's theory that biological development is the result of natural selection, particularly of ceaseless strife and ruthless elimination of the unfit, Darwinism has been called in as scientific justification for the Marxist class struggle, the worst abuses of laissez-faire capitalism, the growth of militarism and competitive nationalism...
...Since Darwin's time violence has sometimes been justified by aggressors and even accepted by their victims as biologically natural, i.e., just and not answerable to unscientific moral scruples. A climax in the misuse of Darwinian ideology was reached by the totalitarians who declared that it justified 1) deliberate brutality, 2) adoption of violence as the final arbiter in the relations among men, classes, states...
...Many of the life-like animal exhibits in the Museum were the work of this Negro's skill, and ever since I first became acquainted with Mr. Gilbert, when I was an undergraduate in Harvard College, he inevitably suggested to my mind the unnamed Negro whom the great Charles Darwin mentions in his "Life and Letters" as having taught him how to stuff animals...
...spot at which the Allies got the jump on the Japanese was Timor. This half-Dutch, half-Portuguese island, lying between the Dutch East Indies and Australia (only 410 miles from Darwin), has long been eyed by the Japanese. This autumn they acquired the right from the Portuguese to fly a commercial airline there. Dutch and Australian troops marched into Portuguese Timor last week over the protest of local Portuguese authorities. But even this little triumph was fraught with political hazards which might eventually offset the military advantage...