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To: GodGunsGuts

So-called ‘Social Darwinism’ actually predates Darwin. It has its roots in the thinking of British Sociologist Herbert Spencer. It’s more apt to call Darwin’s work Biological Spencer-ism.


6 posted on 06/14/2009 5:55:57 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Actually, Spencer was quite the Lamarckian. But either way, he was an evolutionist.


7 posted on 06/14/2009 5:58:28 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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