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The Matter over Darwin’s Missing Mind. Unexpressed. Deep in my heart that aches with the repression, And strives with plenitude of bitter pain, There lives a thought that clamors for expression, And spends its undelivered force in vain.
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Unexpressed Deep in my heart that aches with the repression,And strives with plenitude of bitter pain,There lives a thought that clamors for expression,And spends its undelivered force in vain. What boots it that some other may have thought it?The right of thoughts' expression is divine;The price of pain I pay for it has bought it,I care not who lays claim to it--'tis mine! And yet not mine until it be delivered;The manner of its birth shall prove the test.Alas, alas, my rock of pride is shivered--I beat my brow--the thought still unexpressed. -Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
Living organisms had existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them. His name was Charles Darwin. To be fair, others had had inklings of the truth, but it was Darwin who first put together a coherent and tenable account of why we exist. …We no longer have to resort to superstition when faced with the deep problems: Is there a meaning to life? What are we for? What is man? After posing the last of these three questions, the eminent zoologist G.G. Simpson put it thus: “The point I want to make now is that all attempts to answer that question before 1859 are worthless and that we will be better off if we ignore them completely.” -Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Ch.1
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” -U.S Declaration of Independence, 1776
1907: Indiana becomes the first state to legalize involuntary sterilization. • 30 states followed. • 1928: Sexual Sterilization Act passed in Alberta Legislature • 1933: Sexual Sterilization Act passed in British Columbia • 1933: “Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring” passed in Nazi Germany (modelled on Canadian Acts)
“It is better for all the world if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind… Three generations of imbeciles are enough” • -Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Buck vs. Bell 1927
The World is changing. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Lavoisier (1746-1794) Charles Lyell (1797-1875) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of the Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
“I happened to read for amusement Malthus On Population and being well prepared to appreciate the struggle for existence which everywhere goes on from long continued observation of the habits of animals and plants, it at once struck me that under these circumstances favorable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavorable ones to be destroyed. The result of this would be the formation of new species. Here, then, I had at least got a theory by which to work.” -Charles Darwin, Autobiography
“All children who are born beyond what would be required to keep up the population to a desired level must necessarily perish, unless room be made for them by the deaths of grown persons… therefore we should facilitate, instead of foolishly and vainly endeavoring to impede, the operations of nature in producing this mortality; and if we dread the too frequent visitation of the horrid form of famine, we should sedulously encourage the other forms of destruction, which compel nature to use. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits… but above all we should reprobate specific remedies for ravaging diseases; and restrain those benevolent, but much mistaken men, who have thought that they are doing a service to mankind by protecting the schemes for the total extirpation fo particular diseases.” -Thomas Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population, 1799 Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
The theory of Natural selection in a nutshell: • Struggle for existence within finite territories, spurned on by random genetic mutations, giving rise to some more fit random mutations which destroy the unlucky less fit, thereby becoming new species over time. A slow gradual process.
The Cracks in the Structure • No Intermediary links (gradualism) • Transformations occur within species, rather than across species • Life developing from non-life, Conscious life from unconscious life, and intellectual life from non-intellectual life. • Order from Chaos.
Non-Darwinian Evolutionary thinkers Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) James Dwight Dana (1813-1895) CEPHELIZATION Georges Cuvier (1769-1829) Theory of the Correlation of Parts Karl Ernst von Baer Morphegentic fields
“What we have discussed here: the reciprocal interconnections of organisms with one another and their relationship to the universal materials that offer them the means for sustaining life, is what has been called the harmony of nature, that is a relationship of mutual regulation. Just as tones only give rise to a harmony when they are bound together in accordance with certain rules, so can the individual processes in the wholeness of nature only exist and endure if they stand in certain relationships to one another. Chance is unable to create anything enduring, rather it is only capable of destruction.” -Karl von Baer, Ueber den Zweck in den Vorgaengenin der Natur”
The original x-men were also freaks. • X-Club members: Thomas Huxley (1825-1895)- co-founder Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911)- co-founder Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911) Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)
“THIS IS NOT A THEORY! IT IS A UNIFYING PRINCIPLE OF THE UNIVERSE!!!”… are humans natural? In Darwin’s program, their behaviour is not.
Henry C Carey (1793-1879) Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
“With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.” -Charles Darwin, Descent of Man vol 1 pg 161
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world.” –Charles Darwin, Descent of Man
“Here was further proof of the universality of the natural laws- The course of man, in reference to the earth at large, being thus shown to have been the same that we see it now to be in reference to all the instruments into which he fashions parts of the great machine itself. Always commencing with the poorest axes, he proceeds onward to those of steel; always commencing with the poorer soils, he proceeds onward toward those capable of yielding larger returns to labor; increase of numbers being thus proved to be essential to increase in the supply of food. Here was a unity of law leading to perfect harmony of all real and permanent human interests, and directly opposed to the discords taught by Mr. Malthus. …Reflecting upon this, I soon was brought to expression of the belief, that closer examination would lead to development of the great fact, that there existed but a single system of laws; those instituted for the government of inorganic matter proving to be the same by which that matter was governed when it took the form of man, or of communities of men.’ -Henry C Carey, Unity of Law 1871-preface
“Seeking to obtain power over matter, man desires to obtain a knowledge of the laws instituted for its government. To become the subject of law, it is required that there be a regular and uniform succession of causes and effects, the nature of which may be expressed in distinct propositions- so that when we observe the former we may be enabled to predict the latter; or that when the latter are observed, we may safely assume the former to have pre-existed.” -Henry C Carey, Harmony of Interests p.34
‘For nearly half a century Germany and Russia have been engaged in the effort at bringing into orderly arrangement their hundred millions of human positives and negatives; that effort having been maintained in absolute defiance of gentlemen who have sought to enlighten the world by means of a ‘science based on assumptions’, a science by whose present teachers they are daily taught that national prosperity and happiness must inevitably result from submission to a system of (economic) ‘warfare’ having for its object that of enabling a few of the ‘most wealthy English capitalists’ to annihilate foreign competition, and thus prevent everywhere outside of Britain the growth of that habit and those powers of association to which alone we can look for such development of human force as is required for enabling man to become controller and director of the great natural forces, and to obtain for himself full exercise of the greatest of human faculties, the power of self-direction’ -Carey, Unity of Law p197
The Science of Physical Economy, from Carey to LaRouche “So whereas inanimate and living processes of plant and animal life are distinguished by Einstein’s principle of finite-but unbounded creativity, only the human individual expresses creativity and its effects as a consciously willful quality of process, as is implicitly typical of the first chapter of the Christian Genesis. This distinction is expressed by the growth of human populations through the benefits of combined scientific and related cultural progress, a willful characteristic of mankind which is not expressed by any other known form of living species existent. The increase of the human species, is, thus, bounded by mankind’s willful ability and disposition to create the improvements of the environment on which the sustaining, and the improvement of the condition of the human population depends. The present urgency of accelerated reliance on the development and proliferation of nuclear-fission and thermonuclear fusion sources of power, together with the duty of exploring our Solar system– and the universe beyond– exemplifies the present requirement for meeting what are presently foreseeable of the essential existential needs, and proper aims of all mankind.” -Lyndon H LaRouche, The Question Before Us, 2010
“…Science is defined as a process of successive, characteristically anti-entropic improvements of the universe through mankind’s application of the mission of the husbandry of the universe we inhabit. It is the discoverable rules for such behaviour by mankind, which is true scientific practice” -Lyndon H LaRouche, What Leibniz Intended, 2010
