Social Darwinism
Title: Social Darwinism
Category: /History
Details: Words: 638 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Social Darwinism
Category: /History
Details: Words: 638 | Pages: 2 (approximately 235 words/page)
"This law of organic progress is the law of all progress. Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, the development of Society, of Government, ..., this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through a process of continuous differentiation, holds throughout."
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism is a theory of the 19th century it was developed by the British scientist and naturalist Charles Darwin. Social Darwinism
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cases, you might have not been the fittest in earlier days but now you've grown.
The idea of Social Darwinism is that through the struggle for survival in the world and in the social order, the wealthy and prosperous will reign and the weak and unfit will fail and die.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/evolphil/social.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/spencer-darwin.html