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wyntir_knight) wrote2007-12-09 03:51 pm
wyntir_knight) wrote2007-12-09 03:51 pm
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Book Meme!
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caravanka
1) Grab the nearest book. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy).
2) Open the book to page 123.
3) Find the fifth sentence.
4) Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5) Tag five people.
Taken from The Devil in Babylon, specifically the chapter on the Eugenics movement in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Charles Davenport was by no means the first scientist to make the connection between evolutionary theory, Social Darwinism, and race. In Germany, for instance, the biologist Ernest Haeckel (1834-1919), stirred by The Origin of the Species, devoted himself to promoting Aryan superiority and the notion of "polygenesis" - that each race somehow appeared seperately as a result of multiple creations (this was contrary to Darwin's "monogenetic" view).
Similarly, Houston Steward Chamberlain (1855-1927), a British writer with a university degree in science, who married composer Richard Wagner's daughter Eva and shared his father's anti-Jewish attitudes, gained wide noteriety with his book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century published in 1899 in Germany and in 1913 in Eglish.
Like Haeckel, Chamberlain's version of human history focused on the moral and cultural supremacy of Aryanism - in all it's glory. "Nothing is so convincing as the consciousness of the possesion of Race," he argued. "The man who belongs to a distinct, pure Race never loses the sense of it." Despite the condescending, hate-filled, and anti-Semitic tone of the book, Chamberlain (who even tried to show that Jesus was not Jewish) received accolades fromt he likes of Theodore Roosevelt and George Bernard Shaw, who called it "the greatest Protestant Manifesto ever written."
Now I normally don't tag, but I'm curious, so I tag:
julie_ann
corradus
oni_neko
kali_kali
and
nightwind69
caravanka1) Grab the nearest book. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest (unless it's too troublesome to reach and is really heavy).
2) Open the book to page 123.
3) Find the fifth sentence.
4) Post the text of the next 4-7 sentences on your LJ along with these instructions.
5) Tag five people.
Taken from The Devil in Babylon, specifically the chapter on the Eugenics movement in the late 1800s/early 1900s.
Charles Davenport was by no means the first scientist to make the connection between evolutionary theory, Social Darwinism, and race. In Germany, for instance, the biologist Ernest Haeckel (1834-1919), stirred by The Origin of the Species, devoted himself to promoting Aryan superiority and the notion of "polygenesis" - that each race somehow appeared seperately as a result of multiple creations (this was contrary to Darwin's "monogenetic" view).
Similarly, Houston Steward Chamberlain (1855-1927), a British writer with a university degree in science, who married composer Richard Wagner's daughter Eva and shared his father's anti-Jewish attitudes, gained wide noteriety with his book The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century published in 1899 in Germany and in 1913 in Eglish.
Like Haeckel, Chamberlain's version of human history focused on the moral and cultural supremacy of Aryanism - in all it's glory. "Nothing is so convincing as the consciousness of the possesion of Race," he argued. "The man who belongs to a distinct, pure Race never loses the sense of it." Despite the condescending, hate-filled, and anti-Semitic tone of the book, Chamberlain (who even tried to show that Jesus was not Jewish) received accolades fromt he likes of Theodore Roosevelt and George Bernard Shaw, who called it "the greatest Protestant Manifesto ever written."
Now I normally don't tag, but I'm curious, so I tag:
julie_anncorradusoni_nekokali_kaliand
nightwind69
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And I do read some light stuff. If I'd stretched my arm out a little further I would have grabbed Little House in the Big Woods that's lighter.
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