ny believe a
             misapplication) of Charles Darwin's laws of evolution and natural selection to
             human society. In his most famous book The Origin of Species, Darwin
             included four major arguments: that new species appear; that these new
             species have evolved from older species; that the evolution of species is the
             result of natural selection; and "that natural selection depends upon variations
             and the maintenance of variation in spite of the tendency of natural selection
             to eliminate 'unfit' variants" (403). Darwin explains the process of natural
             As many more individuals of each species are born that can possibly survive;
             and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it
             follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to
             itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have
             a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong
             principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new
             According to Darwin, natural selection is depended on the struggle for
             existence among individuals. Any organism that is able to obtain the
             necessary resources, often at the expense of other organisms, will survive,
             reproduce and pass on the "favored" qualities onto it's offspring (the
             "principle of inheritance"). In short, the weak, "unfit" will die, and the strong,
             will continue its existence. This whole theory was summarized in one laconic
             phrase - "survival of the fittest." For almost a decade before Darwin's The
             Origin of Species was the first published in 1859, a well educated
             Englishman named Herbert Spencer had been writing about the doctrine of
             evolution. He was first ever to use the popular phrase "survival of the fittest"
             and was among the first to apply the doctrine of evolution to human society.
             Along with William Graham Sumner, they portrayed the society as an arena
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