Darwin on the Savage races

They are not fascist thoughts. I feel the same about Darwin's racism as I do about Lincoln's racism. But I'm not an aboriginal Australian or Colombian tribesman. I'm not sure if we have any regular posters of that sort either. Its not a fable. Victorian writers had a peculiar style of their own and a bit of wistfulness was quite normal I believe. He's just saying he'd rather think of himself descended from monkeys of high character than humans of low character.He doesn't spend long on this before quickly adding 'But we are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with the truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it; and I have given the evidence to the best of my ability.'

Who alleges it? And I bet I can make a stronger case that Houston Chamberlains German nationalistic work in Die Grundlagen had more influence on Hitler than anything Darwin said.Hitler believed in the immutability of the species. 'The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger.' he said, so it's clear that while they may have superficially agreed on some things (and I see no reason to see Darwin agreeing with Hitler about the necessity for the Aryan race to eradicate the world of Jews), they disagreed more fundamentally on others.And how does that make Darwin's comments fascist?