Charles Darwin
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The Origin of Species.

" . . . [C]an we doubt . . . that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the better chance of surviving and of procreating their kind? . . . This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest."1a SPINOZA MALTHUS SMITH SPENGLER ZINN DAWKINS AYOUB

"Man selects only for his own good . . . "1b AYOUB


   
   
   
   
   
   
The Descent of Man.
"No race or body of men has been so completely subjugated by other men, as that certain individuals should be preserved, and thus unconsciously selected, from somehow excelling in utility to their masters."2a

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long . . . "2b


   
   
   

1 Charles Darwin (1809-1882). The Origin of Species (1859). In Darwin, Philip Appleman (ed.), 2nd ed., New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1970, 1979.
a Natural Selection; Or the Survival of the Fittest, at 54.
b Natural Selection; Or the Survival of the Fittest, at 56.

2 Charles Darwin (1809-1882). The Descent of Man (1871). In Darwin, Philip Appleman (ed.), 2nd ed., New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1970, 1979.
a On the Manner of Development of Man from Some Lower Form, at 156.
b General Summary and Conclusion, at 196.