"...even social-Darwinist discussions of racial difference in England can be seen to depend on the older idea that race was a superficial characteristic; what mattered about race was only its role as a marker of the very different degrees of development among peoples along that path of progressive civilization which would lead to a post-nationalist outcome..." Clark
Contrast this with the polygenism of a Lincoln or a Jefferson, a repudiation of Western monogenic Christianity.
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