Similarly, there was a direct linear connection between Gobineau’s reasoning and the verbiage of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf of 1925 (Biddiss 1970, 258; Brace 2005, 122). Thus, the “center of gravity” of the ideology of the eugenics movement, which began in Europe with early polygenic theories such as those of Hume and Kant, moved to the United States with the Mortonites and their fight to preserve slavery, then back to Europe with Sir Francis Galton soon after Darwin’s Origin was published.
