[[Image:Hitlerrisetopower.jpg|right|200px|thumb|[[Hitler wrote in [[Mein Kampf]] that the German race was destined for a glorious evolutionary future and if [[Jew]]s were to intermarry with the German race that it would render useless nature's effort to establish a higher evolutionary stage.]]
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[[Image:Hitlerrisetopower.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hitler wrote in [[Mein Kampf]] that the German race was destined for a glorious evolutionary future and if [[Jew]]s were to intermarry with the German race that it would render useless nature's effort to establish a higher evolutionary stage.]]
The staunch evolutionist Stephen Gould admitted the following:
The staunch evolutionist Stephen Gould admitted the following:
{{cquote|[[Ernst Haeckel|Haeckel]] was the chief apostle of evolution in [[Germany]].... His evolutionary racism; his call to the German people for racial purity and unflinching devotion to a "just" state; his belief that harsh, inexorable laws of evolution ruled human civilization and nature alike, conferring upon favored races the right to dominate others; the irrational mysticism that had always stood in strange communion with his brave words about objective science - all contributed to the rise of Nazism. - Stephen J. Gould, "Ontogeny and Phylogeny," Belknap Press: Cambridge MA, 1977, pp.77-78). <ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/social.html</ref>}}
{{cquote|[[Ernst Haeckel|Haeckel]] was the chief apostle of evolution in [[Germany]].... His evolutionary racism; his call to the German people for racial purity and unflinching devotion to a "just" state; his belief that harsh, inexorable laws of evolution ruled human civilization and nature alike, conferring upon favored races the right to dominate others; the irrational mysticism that had always stood in strange communion with his brave words about objective science - all contributed to the rise of Nazism. - Stephen J. Gould, "Ontogeny and Phylogeny," Belknap Press: Cambridge MA, 1977, pp.77-78). <ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/social.html</ref>}}