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Social Darwinism Paper (considerable proportion appear to me to be based…
Social Darwinism Paper
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Man shares with the rest of the living world the mighty instinct of reproduction and its consequence, the tendency to multiply with great rapidity.
if ideal conditions are met there is no competition from outside and competition within the population is reduced
this means the population thrives and there is a need for more resources which requires the people to expand or increase their resource output or cull the herd
that the unlimited increase of the population over a limited area must, sooner or later, reintroduce into the colony that struggle for the means of existence between the colonists
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considerable proportion appear to me to be based upon the notion that human society is competent to furnish, from its own resources, an administrator of the kind I have imagined.
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it cannot be said that one is fitted by his organization to be an agricultural labourer and nothing else
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good characters are dependent on the environment and it is hard to separate closely linked characters
the energy and courage to which the successful soldier owes his rise, the cool and daring subtlety to which the great financier owes his fortune, may very easily, under unfavourable conditions, lead their possessors to the gallows, or to the hulks.
Surely, one must be very "fit," indeed, not to know of an occasion, or perhaps two, in one's life, when it would have been only too easy to qualify for a place among the "unfit."
the administrator might look to the establishment of an earthly paradise, a true garden of Eden
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this suppression is accepted by members of society sot hat the beneifts of society such as safety and productivity can be obtained
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human society is kept together by bonds of such a singular character, that the attempt to perfect society after his fashion would run serious risk of loosening them.
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it is easy to see that every increase in the duration of the family ties, with the resulting co-operation of a larger and larger number of descendants for protection and defence, would give the families in which such modification took place a distinct advantage over the others
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