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The subtitle of Darwin's Origin of the Species is "On the origins of the species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life".* The human race has evolved to its present state of intelligence and power because of "the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life"*. "Race"* is the central mechanism of evolution that has created all living things. "The preservation of favoured races"* is a simple process to understand, but its effects over time are awesome. If we examine the process, we find that at some stage in evolution we can observe a group of individuals of a single species which exist in an area segregated from other members of that same species. As a result of chance mutation, there occur genetic variations in some members of that segregated group. At first, the accumulated genetic variations do not make the segregated group different enough from the original species to justify calling the segregated group a new species or even a new "favoured race"* of the original species. However, after many generations, the segregated group or tribe which had accumulated sufficient genetic differences would be called a new "race"* of the original species. However, after many generations, the segregated group or tribe which had accumulated sufficient genetic differences would be called a new "race"* of the original species. Over time, these newly developed segregated races continue to accumulate genetic differences through chance mutation, variation etc. The "favoured"* variations increase the survivability of the "race"* which carries them. Once this new "favoured race"* has become different enough from the original species, it is called a new species. Hence the subtitle, "On the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life". There is really no probability that the "races"* would be equal. In fact, the whole notion runs directly counter to all evolutionary theory and to the whole science of biology. Given the laws of biology, it would be a great surprise if the average strength or intelligence of one "race"* was found to be exactly equal to the average strength or intelligence of a different "race"*. Despite the controversy surrounding "race"*, it is not particularly useful to know which "race"* happens, as the result of an accident of evolutionary development, to have greater average strength or greater average intelligence because one could not predict from this average that any particular individual member of one "race"* was going to be superior or inferior to any particular individual member of a different "race"*. There are superior and inferior, strong and weak, intelligent and unintelligent individuals in all "races". Regardless of "racial"* averages, one would still have to judge each individual on the basis of individual merit without reference to the average of the group to which he happened to belong. Only by judging people as individuals, could we avoid injustice and enable all people to make the maximum contribution to society. There is no such thing as a superior "race"* per se, in the sense that every member of one "race"* is superior to every member of another "race"*. Neither is there such a thing as racial equality in the sense that the average strength or intelligence of one race is equal to the average strength or intelligence of every other "race"* By judging people as individuals, one could perhaps identify a (superior) socio-biological class which might be a cross section of all "races"* although probably not in equal proportion. The only way you could have a superior race would be if a "favoured race"* evolved into and became the next more highly evolved species above homo-sapiens. It is our hope that all "races"* will accept that moral responsibility and accomplish that objective, but it cannot be accomplished within the political, philosophical and religious milieu of the 20th century." *Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin For a free copy of the Eugenic Manifesto,
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