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              J. Hill, alleged that "the fortunes of railroad companies are determined by
              the law of the survival of the fittest." 125
                   In his biography Andrew Carnegie, another major owner of capital
              in America, states his belief in evolution with the words, "I had found the
              truth of evolution." 126  Elsewhere he wrote these words:
                   It (the law of competition) is here; we cannot evade it; no substitutes for it
                   have been found; and while the law may sometimes be hard for the indivi-
                   dual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in
                   every department. 127
                   In his article Darwin's Three Mistakes, the evolutionary scientist Ken-
              neth J. Hsü, reveals the Darwinist thoughts of America's foremost capita-
              lists:
                   Darwinism was also used in a defense of competitive individualism and its
                   economic corollary of laissez-faire capitalism in England and in America.
                   Andrew Carnegie wrote that the "law of competition, be it benign or not, is
                   here; we cannot evade it." Rockefeller went a step further when he claimed
                   that "the growth of a large business is merely a survival of the fittest; it is
                   merely the working out of a law of nature." 128
                                                  PEOPLE SLEEPING IN THE STREETS
                                                  Poor people left on the streets in a
                                                  wealthy and comfortable country…
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