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Science becomes increasingly a metaphor for the explanation of why things are as they are: people look to science to explain the origin of human character and institutions; science becomes an important part of ideological argumentation and a means of social control. European scientists from late 18th to 19th century developed scientific theories to explain the racial differences. The attempt to cast a theory of race in biological terms was the product, in part, of …

…they are due to different environmental factors that inevitably acting against their cultural advancement. While this essay proves that Haggard agreed with the 19th-century scientists about viewing Africans as a degenerate race, his opinion about Africans are extremely moderate when compared to the opinions of his contemporary scientists who were so biased that they contrived ways of perfecting the human race by practicing eugenic experiments and taking away their right which was given by God.