pynchon-l-digest V2 #4623

[Dave Monroe]

What we call Social Darwinism predates actual
Darwinism (The Origin of Species [1859]) by at least a
couple of years ...

http://www.victorianweb.org/science/dagg2.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/spencer-darwin.html

... and was only much popularized as such ca. 1944 ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism

In fact, that much vaunted "survival of the fittest,"
actually a phrase of Herbert Spencer's, doesn't even
show up in Darwin ntil the 5th ed. of The Origin of
Species ...

"I have called this principle, by which each slight
variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term
natural selection, in order to mark its relation to
man's power of selection. But the expression often
used by Mr. Herbert Spencer, of the Survival of the
Fittest, is more accurate, and is sometimes equally
convenient."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_of_the_fittest


--- MalignD at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 12/26/05 4:14:39 AM Eastern
> Standard Time, 
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com writes:
> 
> << for me, Social Darwinism is so odious that ID
> doesn't look like a terribly bad overcorrection
> in comparison >>
> 
> Darwin has nothing to do with social darwinism,
> beyond the usurping of his name.
> 
> ID has nothing to do with SD, beyond their both
> being idiotic.


		
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