jan 1, 1885 - 1885: John Fiske Publishes "American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History"

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Was a historian and popular lecturer on Darwinism, he developed racial corollaries from darwin's ideas. In American Political Ideas Viewed from the Standpoint of Universal History. (1885), he stressed the superior character of Anglo-Saxon institutions and peoples. The English speaking race, he argued, was destined to dominate the globe and transform the institutions, traditions, language-even the blood-of the the world's peoples.

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