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
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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
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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.
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