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Gossett, Thomas F. Race: The History of an Idea in America (1999) ch 7; Hawkins, Mike (1997). G���@� The same struggle also took place in other European countries. 395 0 obj <>stream endstream endobj 397 0 obj <>stream ]r�[g���bjj�6z�fh���>�P����=�S��jM�H[�zb8�c���=^��]�,��\�$��k8��e���B����˂ ���N�1�,���k5H�����OE��ڛ�-������ �I�6e�´n%. Social Darwinism is the application of Darwin’s theory of natural selection to society- specifically in economics and business in America. al. This pseudoscientific social Darwinism appealed to educated Europeans already demoralized by a century of higher criticism of religious scripture and conscious of the competitiveness of their own daily lives in that age of freewheeling industrial capitalism. All rights reserved.