Volkism vs Modernity

Medieval mystical modes of thought disappeared from research; biology became a genuine natural science. The victory of the theory of evolution was complete and final. Today, the genetic view of life seems self-evident to us, and we have almost forgotten what a bitter and vicious campaign the denominations and reactionaries waged against the theory of evolution, and which they are attempting to wage again today wherever they can. With the turn of the century began the magnificent development of genetics. While it initially stood alone alongside the theory of evolution, at least in certain subfields, today it has merged with it. The theory of evolution and genetics form an inseparable unity, having fused into a general, comprehensive genetics, which, as a modern natural science, tackles the problems of development with the cleanest methodology and tackles them successfully! Given this state of affairs, given the now very intensive genetic permeation of all biological work, it is astonishing when one asks in circles that are further removed from biology what they imagine by the theory of evolution, the theory of ancestry, etc., what they have heard about it and what significance they attribute to it for the present day. At a time when a brilliant government is using a core idea of ​​the theory of evolution, namely the selection of the best and most useful, i.e., what we biologically call Darwinism, to save our people from biological extinction, the cry rings out: Darwinism?...That's just Western liberalism! That's just mechanism and materialism, that belongs to the system of Marxism. Those who take up such claims—and we know where they come from—are likely quite unaware of the complete lack of basis in these supposed connections. No one has demonstrated why biological Darwinism, the aristocratic principle of natural selection, is related to materialism or even Marxism! Then one hears: "The theory of evolution itself—that's just ape theory!" Then the names of Darwin and Haeckel are mentioned, and with a smug smile, it's declared: "That's all been refuted long ago." Here one becomes aware that a historical and extensive, predominantly orthodox propaganda has managed to present internal discussions about special questions of developmental history as fundamental, thereby characterizing the theory of evolution as at least an unproven hypothesis. [...] However, let it now be stated: Within biology, the fundamental correctness of the theory of evolution is no longer up for debate, especially in circles disparagingly referred to as "conventional school biology" and slandered as materialistic. As things stand, this would be grotesque. We biologists in the National Socialist state certainly have more pressing matters to attend to at present. [...] We would better turn to our objective work, and it is the task of this essay to give an overview of what stands before us as the all-pervading edifice of the theory of evolution. Our task is furthermore to characterize this theory of evolution in its biological significance to the National Socialist state.