by Alastriona Ametza

Created on: January 18, 2009

To dispel a myth - Darwin never heard of the term social Darwinism and never pursued such a theory or agreed with the possibilities of human eugenics. Francis Gulton was a clergy and a cousin to Darwin when he coined the theory. This idea was a precursor to Andrew Carnage's pre-eugenic policy ' The Gospel of Wealth.' (1) Which was written in a time where Americans Nazism ran rampent into Hitler Fascist's theory. Many of our less noble wealthy were considered among Hitlers mentors, including Henry Ford and certain Executives from IBM corporation. (Please refer IBM and the Holocaust).(2)

Social Darwinism is not something that predates the Origin of Species it was actual discovered by Herbert Spencer which was presented 2 years before the "Origin of the Species". Darwin gave series consideration to all of Gilbert's attestations as well as the other eugenic beginning thinkers during the time. He was sure his family would buck in disagreement so he decided to post a later work instead and let the cards fall how they may. In that work he suggested medical science could prolong life of the ill and extended their family. Under Darwinism people in mental asylums and the like were all permitted to reproduce under the laws of the state. Their were superior ism under different sort of concepts that refused people that were less then sufficient normally to reproduce and hold functioning families this went on for years and can be explained in more detail in the book the War on the Weak, by Edwin Black. The explanations and eyewitness accounts are accosting and through to the point of extremely painful education.

Friedrich Nietzsche never failing to disappoint always comes out to side with Hitler on the side of human failings and critiquing all of the fathers of eugenics and saying that sickness is sometimes helpful in progressing the human condition. He felt a direct challenge on his theories on fitness and felt they were unmatched theoretically as challenges. He felt whenever there was a theoretical match to strength it tended to be weakness and that overall crushed societies in general and were unfortunate in bringing about any real progress to the human condition, which may under other conditions prove correct, we as a people excuse ourselves into failure.
Wealth, by Andrew Carnegie, North American ReviewVol.148, IssuIn e 391 pp.653-665, June 1889. (Later published as Part I of The Gospel of Wealth)
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex of 1882 Darwin
IBM and the Holocaust by Edwin Black
War on the Weak by Edwin Black

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