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...listen to the same and form our opinions. These forces of kindness and personal freedom are opposed by thoughts of power over individuals under such slogans as that the individual and all he has belongs to the state, and such half baked ideas that the survival of the fittest is a natural law that applies to men and nations. These ideas, falling on the minds of men over the wide areas of nations build up into a mighty flood that sweeps away the hard won freedoms...
That hatred of Jews is fundamentally hatred of monotheism is not Dr. Freud's discovery, but hats off to him for calling a spade a spade. Blood, might, survival of the fittest constitute the diet of modern paganism. Pagans living on a monotheistic diet are subject to periodical violent vomiting...
...somebody had the wrong bull by the tail. For in the U. S. S. R., according to the New York Times'?, Harold Denny, "any theory that implies hereditary superiority is anathema." Yet no Soviet anathema has fallen on Darwinism, whose theories (of natural selection and survival of the fittest) are premised on hereditary superiority. The basic researches of Mendel and Morgan, which the students explicitly to-helled, have less to do with superiority than with the actual mechanisms of heredity...
...them with speed and without gadgets, "to fight in . . . [not] to live in." Since kudos goes to Nazi airmen, morale of air force is excellent. Göring's policy is to produce pilots in short order, then turn them loose and depend on the survival of the fittest...
...When he became better acquainted with his material, he changed his mind. He became fond of Darwin the man, and he made a shocking discovery about Darwinism. He discovered that Fascists, Communists and rugged individualists all claim direct descent from Darwin's theory of the Survival of the Fittest. What these monstrous descendants ignore, decided Author West, is that Darwin got his Survival theory from the now obsolete Malthusian theory. More important, he decided, they ignore the fact that Darwin's conclusions were apt to be unconscious alibis for a now equally obsolete stage of capitalism...