The United States has a long history of naturalism which must be explored to fully understand today’s situation.  From Henry David Thoreau to Thomas Jefferson, references to the natural world or the natural state of man can be found.  Our Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution guarantee rights to the natural-born or naturalized U.S. citizen.  Many recent immigrants, particularly those of European descent, resent our laws on who may vote, hold office, or be counted as a citizen.  This has been a problem since the American Revolution, where much of the naturalism theory was established.  We are supposed to be independent of a foreign power, and resent the bossy intrusions of European powers who are not “from here”.

In addition to literature and law, some of first degrees offered at educational institutions were in Natural History.  For seven generations, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt’s biological family attended Harvard University in these programs.  With few jobs in the field, as non-Babylonians, with natural linguistic capabilities, the Roosevelt’s quickly built an international financial empire in the workforce.  Evolutionary theory, taxonomy, and a study of how God intended man to be are some of the common themes found in Natural History.  Many of these programs appear to have been banned since the October Revolution, or replaced with the more scientific Natural Science designation, but the naturalness of their themes still remains. 

We began as a country stating our laws on immigration and basic rights in reference to naturalness.  Natural History provides an excellent resource to determine if someone is really who they say they are, in the context of millions of years of evolution.  As long as someone’s documents matched, they appear to not be stealing an identity or lying, agree to support the U.S. government, and do not appear to be non-natural born, the United States gladly accepted millions of immigrants.  The same things that the original Americans did not favor in immigration – the non-natural born--  those eaten out of the timeline, compromised, and those copied (canned) are still relevant today, particularly under U.S. law.  Although American Protestants do celebrate Halloween, you find our overwhelming horror at Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s “Frankenstein” or its application in British colonies in China to the point our disapproval is almost unanimous as a nationality.  Our strong Protestant disapproval of genetic engineering or cloning is still stepped in religion and culture and still strongly favors a Natural History focus even today.  At the end of the Cold War, the U.S. government and Russia signed treaties with the European Union and U.K. prohibiting genetic engineering which appear to have been broken all over the world, including in the EU.  No one is addressing this legally, but it does visibly appear to be going on and reported in the media frequently.  Why is no one confronting this issue?

When Europe learned of how much healthier genetically the Americans were in following this natural-born policy, their monarchies and upper-classes reacted strongly.  America, as a non-European continent, could include all races in their immigration policies and rights under the U.S. Constitution using Natural History theory.  Germany, particularly after losing World War I, and as a predominantly white European country anyway, faced some of the same battles with immigration and constitutional rights.  Their efforts under Nazism were then often attributed to American Naturalists after World War II, in that the American Naturalists could pass the DNA tests the Nazi’s were seeking.  Natural history is not usually considered racist, whereas Nazism is almost always considered so.  Almost all of the American Naturalists were Allied in World War II and as Americans did not want to report to a European monarchy anyway.  The rude comments I receive as an individual meeting British and German Nazi genetic standards are based on centuries of descent as a legally natural-born U.S. citizen!

Dorothy Susan von Bismarck (formerly Sophia Dorothea Roosevelt)