[RobbyS]

More releevant is the fact that Darwin belived in Herbert Spencer's Social Darwinism which supported the indifference of the great industralists to the blight of their employees and to the brutal imperialism of the Euopeans in Africa. Bryan, who is caricatured in the movie "Inherit the Wind" was actually not opposed to evolution as science but to the application of social darwinism as public policy.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

the indifference of the great industralists to the blight of their employees and to the brutal imperialism of the Euopeans in Africa.

IIRC, G.K. Chesterton described this whole development of history as an uprising of the rich against the poor.