Faith & Spirit Quote by Francis Parker Yockey

Darwinism is being framed here less as a scientific theory than as a rival religion, and that is the tell. Yockey’s move is a rhetorical judo throw: he concedes “cannot…be refuted” only to redefine the arena. If Darwinism is a “world view,” it stops being falsifiable in the lab and becomes a totalizing story about human meaning, hierarchy, and destiny. Once you do that, you can attack it with the tools of culture war rather than evidence.

The line about Faith being “stronger than facts” is not an admission of epistemic humility; it’s a piece of ideological stagecraft. Yockey is saying: people don’t live by data, they live by myth, and the side with the more gripping myth wins. That’s a cynical insight dressed up as fatalism. The subtext is permission: if “facts” can’t compete with faith, then insisting on empirical constraints is naive at best, decadent at worst. It’s also a preemptive strike against critics: if you challenge the speaker’s preferred narrative with evidence, you’re just proving the point that politics runs on belief.

Context matters. Yockey wasn’t a neutral commentator on ideas; he was a postwar fascist intellectual trying to rehabilitate authoritarian, civilizational thinking after 1945. Casting Darwinism as an unassailable “world view” lets him treat modern science as another faith-based regime - one he can oppose on aesthetic and spiritual grounds while smuggling in his own metaphysics of power. The sentence reads like a warning, but it functions like a recruitment pitch: abandon the referee of facts, join the contest of myth.