ABSTRACT
The owners of the great machines of monopoly capital - the so-called means of production - were, with excellent reason, at the forefront of nature work - because it was one of the means of production of race, gender and class. From the point of view of Teddy Bear Patriarchy, race suicide was a clinical manifestation whose mechanism was the differential reproductive rates of anglo-saxon v. ‘non-white’ immigrant women. Over one million children per year in New York were looking at ‘nature cabinets’ put together by the museum. Osborn summarized the fond hopes of educators like himself in his claim that children who pass through the museum’s halls ‘become more reverent, more truthful, and more interested in the simple and natural laws of their being and better citizens of the future through each visit’. The leaders of the American Museum of Natural History would insist that they were trying to know and to save nature, reality.
