Some early writers on social evolution took the view that:
a. the lesson of evolution is that only the strong survive, and any efforts to help the “less fit” (the poor, the less intelligent, the physically challenged) were doomed to failure
b. evolution had brought the world to its present state, but had completed its “task”
c. Europe was evolving backwards and would someday soon resemble the poorest parts of the world
d. animals had evolved from humans (God’s first creation), not the other way around
a. the lesson of evolution is that only the strong survive, and any efforts to help the “less fit” (the poor, the less intelligent, the physically challenged) were doomed to failure
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