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To: GSlob
Social Darwinism is the most progressive social system, as most social progress has happened more or less in proportion to the degree in which Social Darwinism was practiced.

Really? Western Civilization was created by the Church on the foundation established by Greece and Rome. Which of these were based on Social Darwinism?

74 posted on 12/11/2005 6:25:37 PM PST by A. Pole ("Truth at first is ridiculed, then it is violently opposed and then it is accepted as self evident.")
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To: A. Pole

Read the history of Renaissance [say, "the Prince" with its survival of the fittest], Industrial Revolution, and of protocapitalist Netherlands, for a sampler and appetizer.


79 posted on 12/11/2005 6:41:39 PM PST by GSlob
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To: A. Pole

Actually, human progress has occurred when the best and the brightest were allowed to apply their talents to the fullest extent possible, which is why the Medieval period, when the influence of the Roman Church was at its peak was, with a few notable exceptions, a period of cultural retardation in Europe.


85 posted on 12/11/2005 6:58:03 PM PST by Clemenza (Smartest words ever written by a Communist: "Show me the way to the next Whiskey Bar")
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