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Darwin —y su teoría— sobre los negros

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.… The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.

Charles Darwin, Descent of Man

Traducción a continuación:

En algún momento futuro, no muy lejano si lo medimos en siglos, casi ciertamente las razas humanas civilizadas exterminarán y remplazarán a las razas salvajes en todo el mundo… Entonces la brecha entre el hombre y sus más cercanos aliados se hará más amplia, porque sobrevendrá entre el hombre —en un estado más civilizado, cabe esperar, aún mayor que el del hombre caucásico— y algunos simios tan inferiores como el papio, no como la brecha actual entre el negro o el australino y el gorila.

Charles Darwin, El origen del hombre

Far better is to dare mighty things…

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who does actually try to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in a gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt from the speech “The strenuous life”, Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899.