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to this law that we owe our wonderful material development,
which brings improved conditions in its train. ... While the law
may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race,
because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department.
We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we
must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment;
the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the
hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as
being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of
the race. 3

According to Social Darwinism the sole objective of a race
is its physical, economic and political development. Individuals'
happiness, well-being, peace and security appear unimportant.
No compassion at all is felt for those who suffer and cry out for
help, for those unable to provide their children, families and
aged parents food, medicine or shelter, or for the poor and pow-
erless. According to this twisted concept, someone poor but
morally upright is regarded as worthless, and that person's
death will actually benefit society. In addition, someone rich but
morally corrupt is regarded as “most important” for the
“progress of the race” and, no matter what the conditions, that
individual is seen as very valuable. This twisted logic propels

Social Darwinism's proponents towards moral and spiritual col-
lapse. In 1879, another Social Darwinist, William Graham
Sumner, expressed this perverted trend's deceptions:
... we cannot go outside of this alternative: liberty, inequality, sur-
vival of the fittest; non-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest.
The former carries society forward and favors all its best mem-
bers; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst
members. 4
The most savage adherents of Social Darwinism were

racists, the most dangerous, of course, being the Nazi ideolo-

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar