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A 6 page paper which examines the concepts of Darwinism and Social Darwinism in terms of how they relate to industrial progress. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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the scientific landscape and forever change the capitalist approach to industrial progress. But Darwins theories as described in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859)
served merely as the catalyst for the ideas he articulated had already "been endorsed by a number of naturalists and philosophers" (Greer, 1977, p. 450). Darwin believed fervently that
all life had descended from either one or a few prehistoric creatures, which explained the existence of every species and individual (Greer, 1977). He explained the changes and variations
in physical appearance to a struggle to survive, with the most dominant attributes emerging victorious just as cream always rises to the top (Greer, 1977). According to Darwin, this
struggle defined everything because without it, there could me no type of selection or rejection, superiority or inferiority (Greer, 1977). Darwinism, as it later became known, was the perfect
marriage of theory and time period, when Manifest Destiny and industrial progress was well within any Western civilizations grasp. At the essence of Darwinism is the principle of evolution or
why some species change with the times while others disappear altogether. The heart of Darwinism is that "every event or phenomenon has a cause" (Hodgson, 2003, p. 85).
This does not mean that causes are entities unto themselves; they still need to be explained through scientific inquiry (Hodgson, 2003). Darwinism explained causation as a three-tiered process of
"variation, inheritance, and selection" (Hodgson, 2003, p. 85). The theory offered little in the way of elucidation as to how variation takes place, but described heredity as that which
transmits genetic predisposition from on generation to the next, and of course the pivotal struggle, which involves selection and environmental adaptation. According to Darwinism, "Evolution occurs when there is
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