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strug gles, and sex roles would go forth min gled with po lit i cal phi los o phy
pri ma ri ly un der the ban ner of sci ence. around the turn of the cen tu ry to form
the vague ide ol o gy known as "so cial
230
In his book Darwin, Marx, Darwinism," it played in to the hands
of rac ists, fas cists, and the most heart -
Wagner, the pro fes sor of his to ry
less sort of cap i tal ists. 232
Jacques Barzun an a ly zes the sci en tif -
ic, so ci o log i cal, and cul tur al rea sons
for the ter ri ble mor al col lapse in the
SPECIATION
mod ern world. These com ments in
Barzun's book are note wor thy in —See Allopatric Isolation.
terms of Darwinism's im pact on the
world:
SPENCER, HERBERT
. . . in ev ery European coun try be tween
1870 and 1914 there was a war par ty Herbert Spencer was the main
de mand ing ar ma ments, an in di vid u al - the o re ti cian of Social Darwinism,
ist par ty de mand ing ruth less com pe ti - who adapt ed Darwin's prin ci ples to
tion, an im pe ri al ist par ty de mand ing a the life of so ci e ty. He wrote that if
free hand over back ward peo ples, a so -
some one was poor, that was his own
cial ist par ty de mand ing the con quest
fault: No one should help any one
of pow er, and a ra cial ist par ty de mand -
else to im prove them selves. If some -
ing in ter nal purg es against al iens—all
one is rich, even if he had ac quired
of them, when ap peals to greed and
that wealth im mor al ly, that was due
glo ry fail ed, or even be fore, in voked
to his own tal ent. Therefore, while
Spencer and Darwin, which was to
the poor are elim i nat ed, the rich live
say, sci ence in car nate . . . Race was bi -
o log i cal, it was so ci o log i cal, it was on. This view dom i nates just about
Darwinian. 231 all mod ern so ci e ties, and is the es -
sence of cap i tal ist mo ral i ty. (See
Despite be ing an ev o lu tion ist,
Social Darwinism.)
Robert Wright, au thor of The Moral
Spencer, an ad vo cate of that mo -
Animal, sum ma ri zes the dis as ters
ral i ty, com plet ed his study en ti tled
that the the o ry of ev o lu tion in flict ed
Social Statistics in 1850. In this he op -
on the man kind:
posed all forms of state as sist ance,
Evolutionary the o ry, aft er all, has a
health-pro tec tion meas ures, state
long and large ly sor did his to ry of ap -
schools and com pul so ry vac ci na -
pli ca tion to hu man af fairs. After be ing
tions. That was be cause, in the view
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