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Herbert Spencer Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer introduced Social Darwinism as a supposition that human groups and ethnicities are contingent to the same laws of natural
selection as Charles Darwin had distinguished in wildlife and plants in nature. This idea was endorsed in the 19th and 20th centuries claiming the
feeble were diminished and their cultures demarcated while the powerful grew in control and had cultural impact over the weak. Social
Darwinists believed in "survival of the fittest", a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer. In turn, this created the idea of racial supremacy, the belief
that a race is superior to others and should rule over them, and eugenics, the selection of favored inheritable traits to improve future generations.
Darwinism is a notion that specific
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Herbert Spencer Social Darwinism

  • 1. Herbert Spencer Social Darwinism Herbert Spencer introduced Social Darwinism as a supposition that human groups and ethnicities are contingent to the same laws of natural selection as Charles Darwin had distinguished in wildlife and plants in nature. This idea was endorsed in the 19th and 20th centuries claiming the feeble were diminished and their cultures demarcated while the powerful grew in control and had cultural impact over the weak. Social Darwinists believed in "survival of the fittest", a phrase coined by Herbert Spencer. In turn, this created the idea of racial supremacy, the belief that a race is superior to others and should rule over them, and eugenics, the selection of favored inheritable traits to improve future generations. Darwinism is a notion that specific Get more content on HelpWriting.net