In response to a claim by Craig, I quoted:
>"At some future time, not very distant as measured by centuries, the
>civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace
>throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the
>anthropomorphous apes... will not doubt be exterminated. The break will
>then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more
>civilised state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as
>the baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the
>gorilla. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, p. 201 (Princeton University
>Press 1981).
>
>Just studying plants and animals, eh?
Susan replies:
[snip}
>Mike makes the mistake of assuming that Darwin was "hoping" that the
>"savage" races would be wiped out. He wasn't.
I assumed nothing about Darwin's hopes nor do I care whether or not
one can put the racist label on Darwin. I was merely replying to Craig's
claim that attempted to portray Darwin as one who did not engage in
sociological speculations but instead merely studied animal and plant
life. I made no mistake; Liz Craig did.
Mike
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