By Robert Bannister
"The so much systematic and complete attempt but made to evaluate the position performed via Darwinian principles within the writings of English-speaking social theorists of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries." --Isis "In trying to set the checklist directly, Bannister cuts in the course of the amalgam with an highbrow shredder, exposing the illogic and incompatibility inquisitive about fusing Charles Darwin's at the foundation of Species with Herbert Spencer's Social Statics... Bannister's familiarity with correct texts and their reception through modern social theorists, students, and critics on either side of the Atlantic is impressive." --Journal of Interdisciplinary heritage "A fantastic contribution to Anglo-American highbrow history." --Journal of yankee historical past
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The laws of use and disuse, and the inheritance of a Since the concept of natural laws was the backbone of eighteenth-century thought, the charge amounted to saying that the latter-day classical economists or utilitarians had perverted and undermined the basic American commitment to equality, natural rights, self~vident truths, and self-regulating natural laws-and had, in effect, restated Hobbes against the prevailing Lockeanism. The basic questions for any study of social Darwinism in American thought are: did such a change occur in postbellum American thought, and if it did, when and where did it occur, and who was responsible for it? Tual aid, and struggle for the life of others. 2 Agreement on the use of the term, however, was not always so clear. Appearing first on the Continent about 1880, the phrase social Darwinism described a variety of evils by the time it crossed the Atlantic two decades later. To Achille Loria and Emile de Laveleye, two distinguished European sociologists, Darwinisme sociale meant brutal individualism, such as Herbert Spencer advocated. For others it was a new rationale for socialism and the class struggle.