On Darwin
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 1:04 am
“The data of the theory of natural selection can no longer leave
us to doubt that the superior races have been produced gradually, and
that consequently, by virtue of the law of progress, they are not intended
to supplant the lower races by progressing, and not to mix and to be merged
with them, at the risk of being absorbed in them by crossings which would
bring down the average level of the species. In a word, human races are not
distinct species, but they are very distinct and unequal varieties, and it
would be necessary to think twice before proclaiming political and civil
equality among a people composed of a minority of Indo-Europeans and a
majority of Mongols or Negroes.”
Clémence Royer, De l'Origine des espèces, ou Des lois du progrès chez
les êtres organisés, 1866.
us to doubt that the superior races have been produced gradually, and
that consequently, by virtue of the law of progress, they are not intended
to supplant the lower races by progressing, and not to mix and to be merged
with them, at the risk of being absorbed in them by crossings which would
bring down the average level of the species. In a word, human races are not
distinct species, but they are very distinct and unequal varieties, and it
would be necessary to think twice before proclaiming political and civil
equality among a people composed of a minority of Indo-Europeans and a
majority of Mongols or Negroes.”
Clémence Royer, De l'Origine des espèces, ou Des lois du progrès chez
les êtres organisés, 1866.