Social Darwinism and its use to Justify Business Practices of the 19th and
             Thesis: The need for a justification of enormous wealth of a few and an
             unimaginable poverty of millions was, as many tend to believe, fulfilled by
             the emergence of a theory called Social Darwinism, which on one hand was
             regarded as a primary defense of business activities, and on the other, was
             I. Definition and origin of Social Darwinism
             III. Overemphasis on Social Darwinism
             B. Relied on Christian and other arguments
             During the late 19th, and early 20th century, the United States experienced a
             growth of industry like it has never seen before. New patents and inventions
             flourished. New products flooded the market. While thousands of poor,
             hungry, and unemployed crowded the streets, the rich were busy displaying
             their enormous wealth. Even though the need for reform was overwhelming,
             for the majority of Americans, nothing was being done. The big bosses were
             able to buy off the politicians and persuade them to vote in their favor. While
             the rich were getting richer, and the poor getting poorer, the politicians
             watched. The need for a justification of the enormous wealth of a few and an
             unimaginable poverty of millions was, as many tended to believe, fulfilled by
             the emergence of a theory called Social Darwinism, which on one hand was
             regarded as a primary defense of business activities, and on the other, was
             nothing more than a myth. Social Darwinism, the experts say, "was a
             short-lived theory of social evolution, vigorously discussed in America,
             which rationalized and justified the harsh facts of social stratification in an
             attempt to reconcile them with the prevalent ideology of equalitarianism. The
             emergence of Social Darwinism was perhaps the most visible effect on the
             social sciences of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species" (Tax and Krucoff
             402). In simple terms, Social Darwinism was an application (ma...