It is less well known, but still is fairly well known, that Adolf Hitler found or thought he found an authorisation for his policies in the Darwinian theory of evolution. He said, for example, that 'if we did not respect the law of nature, imposing our will by the right of the stronger, a day would come when the wild animals would again devour us - then the insects would eat the wild animals, and finally nothing would exist except the microbes. By means of the struggle the elites are continually renewed. The law of selection justifies this incessant struggle by allowing the survival of the fittest. Christianity is a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.'
Lahde: Sivu 72. I have borrowed this quotation from Midgley, M. (1985), Evolution as a Religion, Methuen, London and New York, p. 119; but she drew it from Trevor-Roper, H. (ed.) (1963), Hitler's Table-Talk, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London. 26 Mills, W.T.