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Inherit the Racism
December 3, 2010 10:44 A.M.
By Jonah Goldberg
Via NLT, here’s an excerpt from a textbook at the center of the Scopes trial.

Evolution of Man. – Undoubtedly there once lived upon the earth races of men who were much lower in their mental organization than the present inhabitants. If we follow the early history of man upon the earth, we find that at first he must have been little better than one of the lower animals. He was a nomad, wandering from place to place, feeding upon whatever living things he could kill with his hands. Gradually he must have learned to use weapons, and thus kill his prey, first using rough stone implements for this purpose. As man became more civilized, implements of bronze and of iron were used. About this time the subjugation and domestication of animals began to take place. Man then began to cultivate the fields, and to have a fixed place of abode other than a cave. The beginnings of civilization were long ago, but even to-day the earth is not entirely civilized.

The Races of Man. – At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, in structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest race type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America......

...The Remedy. – If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading. Humanity will not allow this, but we do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race. Remedies of this sort have been tried successfully in Europe and are now meeting with success in this country......

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The amount of pure hogwash in that screed is just breathtaking. Exactly what we would expect from the Freepers.

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@Setanta,

The fact that some dipshits will believe that they are in touch with some cosmic truth with all that Freepshow tripe, makes me want to start selling my perpetual motion machie stock to the gunga clowns.

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You should be able to make good money over at Free Republic.

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@Setanta,

Like most everything gunga presents, this one was another puff a smoke from a fevered mind.
Hes probably out hunting for evidence of the FLOOD.

Happy New Year Gunga.

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@farmerman,

The SCopes Trial was actually a planned test of the Butker ACt in Tennessee. The Butler ACt, ratified in 1925, Required that all teaching of mans origins had to align with the Biblical ACcount, and to teach evolution of man as a subject in science was punisheable by fines that were progressive. Scopes set himself up to be tried under the Butler Act.(Scopes wasnt even a science teacher, he was a gym coch who only subbbed in various classes). He was tried and found gulity and fined . HOWEVER, his plan of carrying the case to a satisfactory conclusion by ascending appeal , was stymied . The State Legislature overturned the court decision because (they claimed) the fine was not properly specified. This sort of cut off any appeals and the case was not retried by agreement among the parties. SO the Butler ACt stood on the Books until the late 60's when a real science teacher , one named GAry L SCott was involved in a similar case again trying the requirements for teaching evolution under Butler . Before the appeals for his case could be even scheduled, the state legislature Repealed the Act.

As far as the Freeps concept of races, genetics is that part of biology that refutes all the bullshit about lower orders of humans.

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@gungasnake,

What is the copyright date ?

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@OmSigDAVID,

http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/doc-scopesText.htm

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The following passages were taken from the biology textbook used by John Scopes, the teachings of which fueled so much controversy in the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Prosecuting attorney William Jennings Bryan was greatly concerned about the implications of these passages, which he viewed as the troublesome result of accepting Darwins theories and applying them to human society. After reading the actual textbook, does this change your conception of the issues involved in the Scopes Trial?

Excerpted from George William Hunter, A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (New York, 1914): pp. 193-196, 253-254, 261-263.

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@OmSigDAVID,

Thee actually are bogus theories and false religions and the like which are relatively harmless, the LDS church, Voodoo, Scientology and the like.

Evolution is not one of those. Evolution is a false religion and a branch of junk science which has two or three hundred million human bodies lying around all over the place to its credit, so far, and which the planet would be better off without.

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@gungasnake,

if you ever go through successful chemotherapy, thank someone who was a "practitioner" of evolution for developing the med.

Wne you can show me some medication, biological mechanism, populational development through time that involves your worldview, please brig it up for careful inspection, if you dare.

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@farmerman,

As far as freep, I have to admit that gunga "snookered" me . I originally believed that his pile of plap was from some non scientific source but was instead the Civic Biology text. The population and race crap is just that, its crap and we all know it.
All I can say is that the quote separates the actual evolution aspects from some more racist view that the author may have had. Its too bad that sometimes even good science can harbor bad views.
Im happy to represent a science that is self correcting over time. Im going to have to earch out "Civic Biology' at used book stores and try to get the original and later editions . In my collection are several books that were used in biolgy classes in Pa during the same time (and earlier) which only deal with a religious interpretation of the rise of life on the planet.

Remember what the Butker act stifled.

Was the Civic Biology text, the only text available? so in effect was it a toss up to present some evolution although badly formed?

Was Civic Biology a stealth book (sorta like "Of Pandas and People " was actually a stealth Creationist book that morphed into an ID platform)

AS far as the SCopes trial, it was specifically brought against a teacher who was in violation of teaching materaial that was opposed to the Butler ACt, namely EVOLUTION, Racism and eugenics had nothing to do with the trial. In fact, in 1925 there were plenty of laws on the books in Tennessee that were racist and were upheld daily, and these laws predated Scopes by years. SO the bringing up of a textbook that had some racists views and ideas had really nothing to do with the trial and the concept of evolution.

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@gungasnake,

gungasnake wrote:

http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~ppennock/doc-scopesText.htm

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The following passages were taken from the biology textbook used by John Scopes, the teachings of which fueled so much controversy in the 1925 Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Prosecuting attorney William Jennings Bryan was greatly concerned about the implications of these passages, which he viewed as the troublesome result of accepting Darwins theories and applying them to human society. After reading the actual textbook, does this change your conception of the issues involved in the Scopes Trial?

Excerpted from George William Hunter, A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (New York, 1914): pp. 193-196, 253-254, 261-263.

Thank u, Gunga; 1914.
How interesting it woud be to be able
to visit times past; I wish I coud visit then
(and correct mistakes).

David

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