...into its opposite but, for better or worse, its violent liquidation: "Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower...by the higher civilized races throughout the world" (Life and Letters, 1:286). Early in Descent Darwin asks: "Do the races or species of men, whichever...

...eliminate other less advanced races in the struggle for existence: '...Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower...eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.'...The Biblical explanation of national and tribal origins is far superior to such ideas, both...

...if necessary, "sacrifice," or exterminate, them in the name of progress. Charles Darwin contemplated "what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilised races" in the not too distant future.4 From the start European expansion had entailed the...

...races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower...by the higher civilized races throughout the world" ( 1 959, vol. 1 , p. 286 [ letter to W. Graham, 3 July 1881]. Similar observations are scattered throughout...

...races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower...by the higher civilized races throughout the world. " (Charles Darwin, Life and Letters, p.318). Darwin also wrote, "At some future period... the civilized...

...races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower...eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world.39 And such a racist notion is intrinsic in the Darwinian concept. And those who followed Darwin...