Social Darwinism

Also a Social Darwinist he believed that "The millionaires are a product of natural selection. These people wanted an economic market that was free from outside regulation. Similarly, the stronger and more successful businessman weeds out his unskilled competitors. "Survival of the fittest" is still a theory that drives many a man to succeed and strive for greatness. There were no rights against a nature which sanctions ruthless competition. It brought the men who were already in power into greater control, but kept the lower classes and minorities at a stand still. If nature had an iron law, then justice, equality, and natural rights were fiction. These concepts and laws that Social Darwinism entails were obviously more widely accepted by the upper classes and business men who would benefit most by this organization of natural selection. If there was a "natural order" to nature which, if left alone, would progress to the survival of the fittest, then any tampering with that order would strike against natue and weaken society. As social Darwinism supports "survival of the fittest," it is only through this that we can see what influence it had on societies progress. Along the lines of Darwinistict thought, a species must evolve to adapt to his surroundings. A friend of Darwin once wrote him, saying:

Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. They contended that the system itself, like nature, had inherent systems of checks and balances. Although now is not a period known as Socialy Darwinistic, it can be found in the modern day class system.