Why is it that even those who claim to agree with Darwin's grand conception of the process of Evolution must willfully misunderstand it? People who would violently object to being somehow lumped in with Victorian Age Robber-Barons in any other context swallow whole their co-option of a phrase in Darwin taken out of context to fit their twisted view of the world. Darwin, as with any seminal thinker, was groping for language beyond what was available to him to form thoughts that had not been considered before. He took great pains to avoid being unclear, this in part led to why it took him so long to publish.
Survival of the Fittest
Survival of the Fittest
Survival of the Fittest
Why is it that even those who claim to agree with Darwin's grand conception of the process of Evolution must willfully misunderstand it? People who would violently object to being somehow lumped in with Victorian Age Robber-Barons in any other context swallow whole their co-option of a phrase in Darwin taken out of context to fit their twisted view of the world. Darwin, as with any seminal thinker, was groping for language beyond what was available to him to form thoughts that had not been considered before. He took great pains to avoid being unclear, this in part led to why it took him so long to publish.
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