On Mar 22, 11:26 pm, "lilchees...@gmail.com" <lilchees...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mar 22, 7:35 am, "Yang, AthD (h.c)" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com>
wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Party_%28United_States%29
The Christian Party is a minor political party in the United States.
It is connected to the Christian Identity movement. The party's
ideology is dominated by racism (it is especially hostile towards
African-Americans and Hispanics), antisemitism and anti-feminism.
Their website includes polls on issues such as "exiling Blacks" these
polls claim to result in over 90 percent of people supporting the
exile of blacks. However, this is clearly a biased result.
Their website:
http://christianparty.net/
I checked out the Christian Party's website, and felt sick to my
stomach that such racist and sexist Americans exist. Of course we all
know they do, but it is still upsetting to see such vile rhetoric. I
had to laugh that the word publicly was spelled "publickly."
Do you consider Darwin:
"racist"?
"sexist"?
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Darwin: "man has ultimately become superior to woman"
What was underlined while reading the Darwin section
"Difference in the Mental Powers of the two Sexes" is herein:
Man is the rival of other men; he delights in competition,
and this leads to ambition which passes too easily into
selfishness. These latter qualities seem to be his natural
and unfortunate birthright. It is generally admitted that
with woman the powers of intuition, of rapid perception,
and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly marked than
in man; but some, at least, of these faculties are
characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a past
and lower state of civilisation.
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two
sexes is shewn by man's attaining to a higher eminence,
in whatever he takes up, than can woman-- whether
requiring deep thought, reason, or imagination, or merely
the use of the senses and hands. If two lists were made
of the most eminent men and women in poetry, painting,
sculpture, music (inclusive both of composition and
performance), history, science, and philosophy, with half-
a-dozen names under each subject, the two lists would
not bear comparison. We may also infer, from the law of
the deviation from averages, so well illustrated by Mr.
Galton, in his work on _Hereditary Genius_, that if men
are capable of a decided pre-eminence over women in
many subjects, the average of mental power in man must
be above that of woman.
Amongst the half-human progenitors of man, and
amongst savages, there have been struggles between
the males during many generations for the possession of
the females. But mere bodily strength and size would do
little for victory, unless associated with courage,
perseverance, and determined energy.
==
the older males have to retain their females by renewed
battles.
==
the higher mental faculties, namely, observation, reason,
invention, or imagination. These various faculties will
thus have been continually put to the test and selected
during manhood; they will, moreover, have been
strengthened by use during this same period of life.
Consequently in accordance with the principle often
alluded to, we might expect that they would at least tend
to be transmitted chiefly to the male offspring at the
corresponding period of manhood.
==
sexual selection,-- that is, through the contest of rival
males, and partly through natural selection, that is, from
success in the general struggle for life; and as in both
cases the struggle will have been during maturity, the
characters gained will have been transmitted more fully to
the male than to the female offspring. It accords in a
striking manner with this view of the modification and re-
inforcement of many of our mental faculties by sexual
selection, that, firstly, they notoriously undergo a
considerable change at puberty,*(2) and, secondly, that
eunuchs remain throughout life inferior in these same
qualities. Thus, man has ultimately become superior to
woman. It is, indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal
transmission of characters to both sexes prevails with
mammals; otherwise, it is probable that man would have
become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as
the peacock is in ornamental plumage to the peahen.
==
"The things in which man most excels woman are those
which require most plodding, and long hammering at
single thoughts." What is this but energy and
perseverance?
==
the present inequality in mental power between the sexes
==
In order that woman should reach the same standard as
man, she ought, when nearly adult, to be trained to
energy and perseverance, and to have her reason and
imagination exercised to the highest point; and then she
would probably transmit these qualities chiefly to her
adult daughters. All women, however, could not be thus
raised, unless
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men do not now fight for their wives, and this form of
selection has passed away, yet during manhood, they
generally undergo a severe struggle in order to maintain
themselves and their families; and this will tend to keep
up or even increase their mental powers, and, as a
consequence, the present inequality between the sexes.*
==
* An observation by Vogt bears on this subject: he says,
"It is a remarkable circumstance, that the difference
between the sexes, as regards the cranial cavity,
increases with the development of the race, so that the
male European excels much more the female, than the
negro the negress.
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Fuller text
Darwin, Charles. 1871, 1874. _The Descent of Man_
Chapter 19 -- Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-descent-of-man/chapter-19.html
A section:
Difference in the Mental Powers of the two Sexes.-- With respect to
differences of this nature between man and woman, it is probable that
sexual selection has played a highly important part. I am aware that
some writers doubt whether there is any such inherent difference; but
this is at least probable from the analogy of the lower animals which
present other secondary sexual characters. No one disputes that the
bull differs in disposition from the cow, the wild-boar from the sow,
the stallion from the mare, and, as is well known to the keepers of
menageries, the males of the larger apes from the females. Woman
seems
to differ from man in mental disposition, chiefly in her greater
tenderness and less selfishness; and this holds good even with
savages,
as shewn by a well-known passage in Mungo Park's Travels, and by
statements made by many other travellers. Woman, owing to her
maternal
instincts, displays these qualities towards her infants in an eminent
degree; therefore it is likely that she would often extend them
towards
her fellow-creatures. Man is the rival of other men; he delights in
competition, and this leads to ambition which passes too easily into
selfishness. These latter qualities seem to be his natural and
unfortunate birthright. It is generally admitted that with woman the
powers of intuition, of rapid perception, and perhaps of imitation,
are
more strongly marked than in man; but some, at least, of these
faculties are characteristic of the lower races, and therefore of a
past and lower state of civilisation.
The chief distinction in the intellectual powers of the two sexes is
shewn by man's attaining to a higher eminence, in whatever he takes
up,
than can woman-- whether requiring deep thought, reason, or
imagination, or merely the use of the senses and hands. If two lists
were made of the most eminent men and women in poetry, painting,
sculpture, music (inclusive both of composition and performance),
history, science, and philosophy, with half-a-dozen names under each
subject, the two lists would not bear comparison. We may also infer,
from the law of the deviation from averages, so well illustrated by
Mr.
Galton, in his work on _Hereditary Genius_, that if men are capable of
a decided pre-eminence over women in many subjects, the average of
mental power in man must be above that of woman.
Amongst the half-human progenitors of man, and amongst savages, there
have been struggles between the males during many generations for the
possession of the females. But mere bodily strength and size would do
little for victory, unless associated with courage, perseverance, and
determined energy. With social animals, the young males have to pass
through many a contest before they win a female, and the older males
have to retain their females by renewed battles. They have, also, in
the case of mankind, to defend their females, as
well as their young, from enemies of all kinds, and to hunt for their
joint subsistence. But to avoid enemies or to attack them with
success, to capture wild animals, and to fashion weapons, requires the
aid of the higher mental faculties, namely, observation, reason,
invention, or imagination. These various faculties will thus have
been
continually put to the test and selected during manhood; they will,
moreover, have been strengthened by use during this same period of
life. Consequently in accordance with the principle often alluded to,
we might expect that they would at least tend to be transmitted
chiefly
to the male offspring at the corresponding period of manhood.
Now, when two men are put into competition, or a man with a woman,
both
possessed of every mental quality in equal perfection, save that one
has higher energy, perseverance, and courage, the latter will
generally
become more eminent in every pursuit, and will gain the ascendancy.*
He may be said to possess genius-- for genius has been declared by a
great authority to be patience; and patience, in this sense, means
unflinching, undaunted perseverance. But this view of genius is
perhaps deficient; for without the higher powers of the imagination
and
reason, no eminent success can be gained in many subjects. These
latter faculties, as well as the former, will have been developed in
man, partly through sexual selection,-- that is, through the contest
of
rival males, and partly through natural selection, that is, from
success in the
general struggle for life; and as in both cases the struggle will have
been during maturity, the characters gained will have been transmitted
more fully to the male than to the female offspring. It accords in a
striking manner with this view of the modification and re-inforcement
of many of our mental faculties by sexual selection, that, firstly,
they notoriously undergo a considerable change at puberty,*(2) and,
secondly, that eunuchs remain throughout life inferior in these same
qualities. Thus, man has ultimately become superior to woman. It is,
indeed, fortunate that the law of the equal transmission of characters
to both sexes prevails with mammals; otherwise, it is probable that
man
would have become as superior in mental endowment to woman, as the
peacock is in ornamental plumage to the peahen.
* J. Stuart Mill remarks (_The Subjection of Women_, 1869, p. 122),
"The things in which man most excels woman are those which require
most
plodding, and long hammering at single thoughts." What is this but
energy and perseverance?
*(2) Maudsley, _Mind and Body_, p. 31.
It must be borne in mind that the tendency in characters acquired by
either sex late in life, to be transmitted to the same sex at the same
age, and of early acquired characters to be transmitted to both sexes,
are rules which, though general, do not always hold. If they always
held good, we might conclude (but I here exceed my proper bounds) that
the inherited effects of the early education of boys and girls would
be
transmitted equally to both sexes; so that the present inequality in
mental power between the sexes would not be effaced by a similar
course
of early training; nor can it have been caused by their dissimilar
early training. In order that woman should reach the same standard as
man, she ought, when nearly adult, to be trained to energy and
perseverance, and to have her reason and imagination exercised to the
highest point; and then she would probably transmit these qualities
chiefly to her adult daughters. All women, however, could not be thus
raised, unless during many generations those who excelled in the above
robust virtues were married, and produced offspring in larger numbers
than other women. As before remarked of bodily strength, although men
do not now fight for their wives, and this form of selection has
passed
away, yet during manhood, they generally undergo a severe struggle in
order to maintain themselves and their families; and this will tend to
keep up or even increase their mental powers, and, as a consequence,
the present inequality between the sexes.*
* An observation by Vogt bears on this subject: he says, "It is a
remarkable circumstance, that the difference between the sexes, as
regards the cranial cavity, increases with the development of the
race,
so that the male European excels much more the female, than the negro
the negress. Welcker confirms this statement of Huschke from his
measurements of negro and German skulls." But Vogt admits (_Lectures
on Man_, Eng. translat., 1864, p. 81) that more observations are
requisite on this point.
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