Although the Nazis have debased German universities by filling their faculties with political stooges, real German scientists are at last risking their jobs and perhaps their lives to criticize dogmas which the Nazis have tried to substitute for science. Last week U.S. scientists were surprised to see in learned journals newly arrived from Germany counter-attacks against the great Nazi campaign, begun last year, to uproot Darwinism.
Girded like Siegfrieds, rabid Nazis had labeled evolution a British-Plutocratic-Jewish-Materialist theory. They abused it as "the theory of universal racelessness," a standing menace to Nazi racial dogma (Rasselehre). In Natur & Kultur, one Otto Muck recognized...
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