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261–263, 264, 280, 284; twentieth-century movement,133–135, 139, 164; legitimate
theoristsacknowledgingHerbertSpencer, anthropologicaltheorizingaccusedof, 55–56,
282–283, 284; twentieth-centurytheorists 274; misrepresentedas exclusivelyright-
unfairlymarginalizeHerbertSpencer, wing,x, xvii–xix, 27–31, 32, 39, 40–43, 45–46,
265–267, 280.See alsoFarmer,J. Doyne; 112, 123, 124–125; not exclusivelyright-wing,
Gazzaniga,Michael;gene-cultureco- 92, 108–109, 112–115, 118–125; quotationson
evolution,theoryof; Spencer,Herbert; laissezfaire’s objectionsto, 85, 91, 94, 114,
Sumner,WilliamGraham 123; rationalizesimmigrationrestriction,30,
Emerson,RalphWaldo, 89 38, 39–40, 93–94, 97, 112–114, 119, 122;
eminentdomain,187–188 supportedby Progressives,84–86, 87–88,
The End of LaissezFaire(book),7, 108–109 90–91, 105, 108, 108–109, 113–115, 118,
EnlightenmentEra (historicalperiod):as 119–122, 123, 124–125, 139; supposedly
individualist,222; blamedfor the Holocaust, defeatedby Progressivism,xvii–xix, 39, 84,
65–66, 76; contradictsNaziphilosophy, 92, 113, 123, 124; versussurvivalof the fittest,
68–76, 137, 211, 222; deismduring,56, 312; 30, 93.See alsoBlack,Edwin;compulsory
did not causeHolocaust,67–76; foundingthe sterilization;Galton,Francis;germline
USA,327; rejectedby HoustonChamberlain, geneticengineering;Hofstadter,Richard;
137; rejectedby Nazispracticingmedicine, Leonard,ThomasC.; Progressives;racism;
211; rejectedby nineteenth-centuryGerman rightwing;scientificracists;“social
philosophy,76, 137, 221–222; sensory Darwinism” (term)
evidencedemonstratesatomictheoryduring, evolutionarypsychology:and capitalism,
323–324; WilliamGrahamSumner’s xv–xvi; anticipatedby HerbertSpencer,261,
disagreementswith,285–289.See also 270, 271–273, 276, 277, 279; anticipatedby
Aristotle;capitalism;reason,facultyof WilliamGrahamSumner,267–270, 274–275,
entrepreneurs.Seerobberbarons(nineteenth- 276, 278–279; calledsocialDarwinism,54–56,
centuryindustrialists) 244; disrespectsHerbertSpencer,270,
environmentalism:againstcivilization,72, 271–272, 273, 275, 275–276, 279; disrespects
207–208, 332, 333–334; and GermanYouth WilliamGrahamSumner,268, 269–270, 272,
Movement,72; and HitlerYouth,72; and 275–276, 278–279; rare showof respectfor
Nazis,72, 201–202; and Volkishmovement, HerbertSpencer,29, 61.See alsogene-culture
72; and Romanticism,72, 207–208; at odds co-evolution,theoryof; Wilson,E. O.
withcancerexpertson risksof Expelled:No IntelligenceAllowed(film),57–58
industrializationcausingcancer,208–210; eye surgery.SeeLASIKeye surgery
callinghumanitya canceron the planet,216,
224; connectedto eugenics,36, 38, 39, Fair LaborStandardsAct (FLSA), 34
108–109, 115, 124, 215; influencedby faith.SeeRomanticistphilosophy
Heideigger,214; influencedby Wilhelm Fallon,James(neuroscientist), 11
Riehl,219–220; opposinggenetic Fanta(softdrink),145–146
engineering, 224 Farmer,J. Doyne,282–283, 284
epistemology.Seereason,facultyof Fascio(academicjournal), 153
Epstein,Samuel(cancerexpert),205, 209, 210 fasciorivoluzionariod’azioneinternazionalista
Esfandiary,FereidounM.: criticizesleft wing, (revolutionaryinternatinalfascistactivism),
245; describesself as “up-winger”, 245–246; 153
for geneticengineering, 245 fascism:as corporatism,155, 189–190; as
eugenics:and germlinegeneticengineering, socialism,152–154; calledeconomically
238–245; and socialDarwinism,x, xvii–xix, efficientby GeorgeOrwell,233; called
29–42, 45, 116, 123, 124; andThe Bell Curve extremecapitalism,xviii–xix, 151; called
(book),38; as oppositeof laissezfaire,39, 85, socialDarwinism,x, xvii–xix; connectionto
91, 93, 94, 114; as Progressivismitself,85, 115, laborunions,151; defined,151–152;
122, 123, 124, 139; collectivismof, 30–31, dictionarydefinition,152; distinctfrom
44–45, 88, 122, 123; connectedto Naziism,151–152; economicinefficiencyof,
environmentalism,36, 38, 39, 108–109, 115, 237; influenceon NewDeal,189; not
124, 215; definedby manwhocoinedterm, capitalism,151–159, 189–190; parallelswith
30; influenceof progressiveson Nazisin Jean-JacquesRousseaupointedout by Agnes
implementing,138–139, 164; in Volkish HooperGottlieb,335; praisedby Robert

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