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quantity of food which regulates the number of the human
species.” 10

As we already stated, various natural circumstances may
have an effect on an animal's numbers increasing or declining
and on species surviving or becoming extinct. Yet it is a grave
error to suppose that this dynamic also applies to human soci-
eties, and experience shows the terrible results of putting such
an error into practice.
Under the Poor Law then in force in Great Britain, the poor
were not left to go hungry, but were forced to work very hard.
Townsend maintained that these laws obliging the poor to work
resulted in excessive difficulties and protests. Instead, he

claimed that it was more reasonable to bring the poor to heel by
means of hunger. According to Townsend, “hunger will tame
the fiercest animals, and will teach them civility, obedience, and
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subjection.” At the root of that ruthless and unconscionable at-
titude lies the error of classing people according to their material
means and physical attributes. Such discrimination, totally in-
compatible with religious moral values, has disrupted the social
order and led to chaos, anarchy and conflict throughout history.

After Townsend, the story of the goats and dogs also con-
stituted the basis of Malthus's theses. It also represents the
source of inspiration for the error expressed in the term “the sur-
vival of the fittest,” used by Herbert Spencer, and of Darwin's
error of “evolution by natural selection.”
As we have already emphasized, applying to human be-
ings certain laws that apply to animals was a great error made
by a chain of people, beginning with Townsend and followed by
Malthus, Spencer and Darwin. They regarded humans as sav-
age creatures that could be reined in only by radical measures

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