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Mike Ruppert and Charles Galton Darwin
Brian Salter, questionsquestions.net31 January 2005
On August 31, 2004, Mike Ruppert gave a speech to the San Francisco CommonwealthClub to announce the publication of his book, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of theAmerican Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. To support his claims that "peak oil" wasthe underlying factor behind 9/11 and US imperial aggression, he quoted a statementmade by Charles Galton Darwin (grandson of Charles Darwin):"the fifth revolution will come when we have spent the stores of coal and oil thathave been accumulating in the earth during hundreds of millions of years. . . . It isto be hoped that before then other sources of energy will have been developed . . .But without considering the detail [here] it is obvious that there will be a verygreat difference in ways of life. . . . Whether a convenient substitute for thepresent fuels is found or not, there can be no doubt that there will have to be agreat change in ways of life. This change may justly be called a revolution, but itdiffers from all the preceding ones in that there is no likelihood of its leading toincreases of population, but even perhaps to the reverse."http://www.fromthewilderness.com/PDF/Commonwealth.pdf  Ruppert described C. G. Darwin as "distinguished". In what way, exactly, is he"distinguished"?
1. C. G. Darwin, key biographical points on his life in the eugenics establishment:
Darwin, Sir Charles Galton KBE, FRS, DSc, MCNewnham Grange, CambridgeEugenics Society Director 1939 VP 1939 Life Fellow 1930, 1937, 1957 President 1953-59 Council 1960Personal: b. 1887; d. 1962; Tait Prof. of Physics, Edinburgh University 1923-36; Master,Christ's College, Cambridge University 1936-38; Director, National Physical LaboratoryMiddlesex 1939-1945; Chmn., Promising Families, a Eugenics Society committee- son of George Howard Darwin- grandson of Charles Darwin- brother of Margaret Darwin who married Geoffrey Keynes (see John Maynard Keynesq.v., William Milo Keynes q.v.)- son, Henry Galton Darwin(Henry Galton Darwin, is an expert on international law)Pubns:"Positive Eugenic Policy", ER, April, p. 13-22, Galton Lecture 1939; The Next MillionYears.1952 ("the essential argument is, of course, Malthus brought up to date", from areview in Around the World News of Population and Birth Control, Oct. 1952); Advisoryeditor, Mankind Quarterly.196X
 
Source: CH; ER 1957; ER Vol. 60 ASP's Hist; ER 1960; WWW; WSW 1990; MankindQuarterly; ER Obit 1963Eugenics and Racism:"We welcome a new journal ... the Mankind Quarterly", from ER October 1960, p. 135;Charles Galton Darwin wrote for this vicious, racist journal while a Council member of the Eugenics Societyhttp://www.africa2000.com/ENDX/eug_d.htm 
2. The post-WW2 crypto-eugenics movement
 In the late 1950s, a leader of the British eugenics movement put forward an interestingidea. Dr. Carlos Paton Blacker had been an officer in the Eugenics Society since 1931; hehad been Secretary, then General Secretary, then Director, then Chairman. His proposalto the ES was:That the Society should pursue eugenic ends by less obvious means, that is by a policy of crypto-eugenics, which was apparently proving successful in the US Eugenics Society.Open Racism DeclinedOpen white supremacy declined after World War II outside the American South. The ideathat Aryans or Nordics should rule the world sounded too much like Hitler, and peopleshied away from it when they recognized it. It continued in many subtle forms which wewill study later.White supremacy declined, but did not disappear completely. In 1960, a member of theEugenics Society, Reginald Ruggles Gates, founded a new periodical to advance racistideas. The Advisory Council of the new journal, Mankind Quarterly, included yet anothermember of the Darwin family, Charles Galton Darwin. One idea advanced in the journalis the belief that anthropology, if it is understood honestly, shows that mankind is dividedinto four species. An early issue of the journal stated that desegregation happenedbecause "American anthropologists were responsible for introducing equalitarianism intoanthropology, ignoring the hereditary differences between races ... until the uninstructedpublic were gradually misled. Equality of opportunity, which everyone supports, wasreplaced by a doctrine of genetic and social equality, which is something quite different."http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap10.html 
3. C. G. Darwin and Mankind Quarterly
 The Pioneer Fund, run by Harry Laughlin and then by Major General Frederick Osborn,has continued its work. And in 1960, English eugenicists launched a new journal,Mankind Quarterly.The editor was R. Gayre of Gayre. There were two associate editors: Professor Henry E.Garrett and Professor R. Ruggles Gates.Gates had been married to Marie Stopes, whose career in England was similar to that of Margaret Sanger in the United States. That is, Stopes was committed to eugenics, and
 
built an alliance with feminists to promote birth control. Before they parted ways, Gateshad helped Stopes to launch the Society for Constructive Birth Control and RacialProgress.The lead article in the inaugural issue of Mankind Quarterly was part one of "WorldPopulation," by Sir Charles Galton Darwin. He was a grandson of the renowned biologistfor whom he was named. (Numerous Darwins had promoted the work started by CharlesDarwin and Francis Galton; the Eugenics Society membership list includes a bewilderingarray of Darwin cousins.) The article did not make any exciting new points; it wasclassical Malthusian doctrine that the population will soon outstrip food, unless we takepreventive action now.One of the most important ideas in the journal was stated explicitly in a book review.Mankind Quarterly was launched at a time when there was a great deal of discussionabout integrating schools, ending a practice of running separate (but theoretically equal)schools for blacks and whites. Gayre of Gayre and Gates wrote a review together (of Race and Reason, by Carleton Putnam), in which they said that "separate schools arebetter for both races." They complained that "American anthropologists were responsiblefor introducing equalitarianism into anthropology, ignoring the hereditary differencesbetween races . . . until the uninstructed public were gradually misled." Then they made adistinction: "Equality of opportunity, which everyone supports was replaced by a doctrineof social and genetic equality, which is something different."http://www.eugenics-watch.com/roots/chap14.html
4. From C. G. Darwin to Mengele
 Von Verschuer, who had significant connections with the infamous Dr. Mengele, hasserved on the editorial board of "The Mankind Quarterly," a racist journal whosecontinuing service to fascism can be seen through an examination of the footnotes to thecurrent fascist bestseller, The Bell Curve. Hans Gunther, another Nazi scientist, joinedthe "Nordic League", a fascist political group with ties; through Roger Pearson, to "TheMankind Quarterly."But perhaps the most salient evidence of continuity lies in the ongoing role of the PioneerFund. Set up in the 1930s by the textile magnate Wickliffe Draper to aid the eugenicsmovement, it remains today the principle funding source for racist science. Pioneer Fundmoneys have been distributed to a number of Roger Pearson enterprises, including"Mankind Quarterly," and to such famous racists as Arthur Jensen, Phillipe Rushton, andWilliam Shockley, the latter of whom actually proposed paying African-Americans tohave themselves sterilized.http://bethuneinstitute.org/documents/naziconnection.html 
5. The rehabilitation of Verschuer
 
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