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ber of ideas that had nothing to do with reality, in his book Essay on the Principle of Population. This
study—which has now been proven to have no scientific value at all—claimed that population increased
far more quickly than food resources, and that therefore, population increase needed to be controlled.
Malthus suggested that wars and epidemics acted as "natural" checks on population, and were thus ben-

eficial. He was the first to refer to the "struggle for survival." According to his thesis, far removed from
humane values, the poor must not be protected but allowed to live under the worst possible conditions
and prevented from multiplying, and sufficient food resources must be reserved for the upper classes.
(For details, see Chapter 2, "The History of Ruthlessness, from Malthus to Darwin.") This cruel savagery

would certainly be opposed by anyone with a conscience and common sense. Although religious moral
values require extending a helping hand to the poor and needy, Malthus—and his follower Darwin—
said that these people should be ruthlessly left to die.
The British sociologist and philosopher Herbert Spencer headed the list of those who immediately

adopted and developed these inhumane ideas. The term "the survival of the fittest," which sums up
Darwinism's basic claim, actually belongs to Spencer. He also claimed that the "unfit" should be elimi-
nated, writing that: "If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live.
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If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die." In Spencer's view,
the poor, uneducated, sick, crippled and unsuccessful should all die, and he sought to prevent the state
from passing laws to protect the poor.
Spencer possessed a great lack of compassion for people who should awaken feelings of compassion
and protection and, just like Malthus, he sought for ways to get rid of them. In Darwinism in American

Thought, the American historian Richard Hofstadter makes the following comment:

Spencer deplored not only poor laws, but also state-supported education, sanitary supervision other than the
suppression of nuisances, regulation of housing conditions, and even state protection of the ignorant from
medical quacks. 2

Darwin's erroneous statement that the weak and powerless need to
be oppressed, backed up by his unscientific theory, is one of the
main factors behind the spread of inequality and injustice.

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