Re: Quote Mine: "The emperor has no clothes"--Hsu

From: Harlequin (usenet_at_cox.net)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:45:47 +0000 (UTC)

catshark <catshark@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:4rc3k01qngonlubo3kbvbhco0sc8e33kp0@4ax.com:

> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 05:40:05 +0000 (UTC), Harlequin <usenet@cox.net>
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>The success of the Darwinian theory on natural selection
>>has been attributed to the _Zeitgeist_ of his age. As Rupert
>>Reidle...wrote, "The reading public of England, which,
>>with Victorian industrialization, had demonstated its
>>(often ruthless) efficiency, could now see the rights
>>its arrogated to itself on the ground
>>of that effiecy legitimated as law of nature."
>>Colonialism was justified then, as nationalism now.
>>Even Darwin himself, although not a racist...
>
> That ellipsis is a little awkward. Is there a bit more that can be
> added to show where Hsu was going with that sentence?

wrote in a letter to W. Graham dated July 3, 1881 (cited
in Oldroyd, 1980, p. 218): "The more civilized so-called
Caucasion 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
races will have been eliminated by the higher
civilized races throughout the world."
[/quote] 

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