
Human Action: A Treatise on Economics Part 1
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Social Darwinism and the Utilitarians
Malthus showed that nature, in limiting the means of subsistence, does not accord to any living being a right of existence. In rejecting the illusory notions of natural law and human equality, modern biology only repeated what utilitarian champions of liberalism and democracy had taught long before. Men are fighting one another because they are convinced that the extermination and liquidation of adversaries is the only means of promoting their own well being. The theory of evolution, as expounded by darwin says, has clearly demonstrated that in nature there are no such things as peace and respect for the lives and welfare of others.
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