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Footnotes 1 Nancy Leys Stepan,' ‘Nature's Pruning Hook’: War, Race and Evolution, 1914–18', in J.M.W. Bean (ed.) The Political Culture of Modern Britain: Studies in Memory of Stephen Koss (London, 1987), 129–48. (Page references to this work are hereafter given in brackets in the text.) Stepan is also the author of The Idea of Race in Science: Great Britain, 1800–1960 (London, 1982). 2 She cites on Britain, Greta Jones, Social Darwinism and English Thought (1980), and D.P. Crook, ‘Darwinism —The Political Implications’, History of European Ideas 2 (1981), 19–34, and his Benjamin Kidd: Portrait of a Social Darwinist (Cambridge, 1984); for America, Robert C. Bannister, Social Darwinism: Science and Myth in Anglo‐American Social Thought (Philadelphia, 1979); for France, Linda L. Clark, Social Darwinism in France (University of Alabama, 1984); and for Germany, Ted Benton, ‘Social Darwinism and Socialist Darwinism in Germany, 1860–1900’, Rivista di Filosofia , 73 (1982), 79–121. My own ideas on war have been elaborated in D.P. Crook, ‘Darwin on War and Aggression’, Australian Journal of Politics and History 29 (1983), 344–53. 3 T.H. Huxley, Evolution and Ethics (1893; repr. London, 1911), 80–82. For an argument that Huxley only denied the authority of evolutionary science to
Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley
Published: Dec 1, 1987
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