Richard Weikart has written this excellent book, in which allows us to see the underlined link of ideas to social action. Weber believes that the power of idea can direct the path of interest, thus the action, finally lead to dramatic social movement, as from Protestant ethic to the spirit of capitalism to the formation the modern capitalist society.
In this book, Weikart shows us how the idea of Darwinism in "origin of Species" and "evolution of natural selection" leads to eugenic ideology, finally leads to Holocaust.
Once more, we are reminded:
sowing an action, reaping an habit;
sowing an habit, reaping a character;
sowing a character, reaping a destiny."
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