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These are just a few examples of headlines that appear just
about every day in newspapers. There are so many reports of this
kind that most people have grown used to such events. Many see
nothing extraordinary in the constant fighting, conflict and anar-
chy all over the world, how even people in the same country fight
with one another, the endless corruption, failure to extend help-
ing hands to the poor and needy, the increasing spread of psycho-
logical disorders such as stress and depression, and the growing
number of suicides. The whole world seems to have adopted a
lifestyle of conflict and fighting, trouble and tension, in which in-
justice and ruthlessness reign supreme.
One of the main reasons for that acceptance is that all these
phenomena are regarded as "natural," as the inevitable conse-
quences of human nature. Actually, however, these are the conse-
quences of the materialist and Darwinist world view that holds
humanity in its grasp. Social Darwinism investigated in this book
represents one very important part of that view.
Though most people are unaware of it, they are encouraged
