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Jack London Thesis statement: Jack London, as a writer, used Darwinian determinism, Nietzschean theories of race, and adventure in his writings. I. Life II. Darwinian determinism A. What is Darwinian determinism? B. How does Jack London use this in his stories? III. Nietzschean theories of race A. Who is Nietzsche? B. How does Jack London use this in his stories Jack London, as a writer, used Darwinian determinism, Nietzschean theories or race and adventure in …

…dangers; not those who hoard, to spend it moment by moment like precious grains of gold, but those who gamble, staking their whole upon the turn of a card… The stories of Jack London stimulate in us of America our best virtues, which, because he stimulates also our worst vices-our thoughtless, reckless, inconsequential energy, our love of a blind conflict, our man and institution-baiting, our love of change, our caprice, our so-called reform and progressiveness.