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This article examines Spengler's references to Darwinism from his corpus. Therein is an initial reconstruction of his metaphysics on History and Nature, simultaneously demarcating the foregrounds required for the comprehension of and reasoning for his critique of Darwinism. Spengler's deconstruction of and pivoting against Darwinism is a problematic of method, due to a conflation of historical and scientific claims that are in part entailed by interpretations of Goethean morphology. A biological conception of race is then discussed through examining the conception of a Darwinian from Spengler's milieu, and then Spengler's own, which provides a resulting nuanced perspective on race. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]