Index 395
Union 285–286; quoted,12–15, 44, 53–54, 267, 268,
stalking, 317 269, 285–289; professorto eugenicistIrving
Standage,Tom, 235 Fisher,32; rejectsKantianCategorical
Starr,Paul, 20 Imperatives,288; similaritiesto Humeon
Staudenmaier,Peter,211–212, 215, 221 ethics,287; snubbedby RichardT. Ely, 89;
Steffens,Lincoln,155–156, 157 teacherto RobertTaft,85; teacherto William
Steigmann-Gall,Richard:on Nazisciting HowardTaft,107; unfairlyblamedfor
Christianity,185; on the ThirdWay,161, 170 TheodoreRoosevelt’s racism, 116
Stein,Ben,57–58 survivalof the fittest:allegedlycitedby social
Steinberg,Jonathan,163–164 Darwinists,ix–x, xvi, 3–21, 54–61, 64, 106;
Steiner,Rudolf:and Theosophy,73; governist appliedproperlyto nationaleconomies,xvi;
politicalphilosophyof, 204; influenceon coinedby HerbertSpencer,xiii; explicitly
Naziagriculture,235–236; influenceon opposedby eugenicists,30, 93; mentionedby
Nazis’ alternativemedicine,211; starts industrialists,55, 106; properlydefined,xiii,
organicvegetablemovement,204–205.See 21; receivestacitapprovalfromprogressive
alsoBartsch,Ernst;Himmler,Heinrich; LouisBrandeis,106.See alsoemergent
Romanticistphilosophy;Theosophy complexity,theoryof; gene-cultureco-
Steinweis,AlanE.: on left-wingbohemian evolution,theoryof; Spencer,Herbert;
artistssupportingNaziParty,191, 192; on Survivalof the Freest;Westernmortalityrate
Nazis’ tax fundingto art, 191, 192, 194; on the Survivalof the Freest,xvi–xvii.See also
ThirdWay, 161 capitalism;survivalof the fittest
sterilization(sexual).Seecompulsory Swade,Doron,65–66
sterilization Sweden:eugenicspoliciesin, 108
Stern,Fritz:on Naziismversusreason,71, 72; on syndicalism, 152
the ThirdWay,161; on Volkishmovement’s
influenceoverNazis,72, 162; on Volkish Taft,RobertA., 107
Romanticism,71, 72, 162; on Volkish Taft,WilliamHoward, 107
Romanticism’s anti-capitalism, 162 Tarbell,Ida: opposeswomen’s suffrage,157;
Stokes,Gale, 71 praisedby Ray StannardBaker,157;
Strasser,Gregor, 161 whitewashesMussolini,156–157; wrongin
Strasser,Otto:anti-capitalismof, 161; influenced proclaimingMussolini’s economicefficiency,
by ArthurMoellervan den Bruck, 221 237
Strossen,Nadine,193–194, 195 Tattersall,Ian, 270
sturmabteilung.SeeSA (Nazistormtroopers) Tennyson,Alfred, 42
Sullum,Jacob(libertarian),202–203, 204, 216 tenth-gradeU.S.historyteacherof author,112,
Sumner,WilliamGraham:and conflictwith 113, 118
Yalepresident,5–6, 53; and racism,44, 111; Tesla,Nikola,281–282
anticipatesgene-cultureco-evolutiontheory, Thatcher,Margaret,57, 275
268–269; as oppositeof eugenicist,250; “TheAmazingAtheist” (internetcommentator).
associatedwithsocialDarwinism,ix–x, 3–6, SeeKincaid,TerrojaL. (internet
12–15, 39–40, 81–83, 250, 265–266; brother-in- commentator)
law to eugenicistWalterCamp,32, 139; Theosophy,73, 220
calledenemyof the poor,ix–x, 3–6, 12–15; ThirdReich.SeeNaziism
calledinferiorto LesterWard,81–83; called “ThirdReich” (term):coinedby ArthurMoeller
inferiorto RichardT. Ely, 89; calledracist,x, van den Bruck, 162
116; coins“ethnocentrism”, 267; denounced ThirdWay(betweenlaissezfaireand extreme
by libertarians,8, 13, 82, 266; did not socialism):extolledby MichaelMoore,161;
influenceGermaneugenicists,133; equated extolledby Naziism,161, 161–162; pushedby
withOliverWendellHolmes,64–65; ArthurMoellervan den Bruck, 162
examplesof Sumnerbeingcalleda social Thomas,Norman(U.S.SocialistParty):admits
Darwinist,4, 5, 8, 13–15, 81–83; misleadingly Hitlernot pawnto big business,144; admits
quotedby critics,12–16; not a eugenicist, Mussolininot pawnto big business,144;
39–40, 250; not a socialDarwinist,14–16, admitsNaziismopposeslaissezfaire, 162
39–40, 44, 250; opposesimperialism,53–54; Thüring,Bruno(Naziscientist), 74
opposesinitiationof the use of force, Thurow,Lester(economist), 31