they belived him (Darwin) i think, because of the wide exceptence of Darwinism, it was and is still debated in school today. Missing from the annals of history though, is the Mother of us all, Alkebulan. that recent program on pbs "the real eve" notwithstanding , they effectively erase all visual traces of the Afrikan origines of world civilization in program after program and from the history books children read in school.
eugenics would seem to be a tributary of darwinism, since the process is one of evolving a better body , better person, smarter person....
which to the white suremist is a 180 degree turn from MaMA,...commencing the lineal walk into oblivion. looting , raping and pillaging the earth
along the bloody trail. up from the single cell amoeba, genes, and DNA to the terminator.
he wasn't embarrased he gloried in it. missinfo or not. still used today, neandrathal, homo erectus
blazes,....seemingly diametrically oppossed ideas can sometimes be two faces of the same coin.