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The Power of Darwinism
Darwin is the way we think about many things, isn't he? He's a tremendously simple idea. Things are passed on from generation to generation and they change as they do. There is a fatal tendency to use Darwinism where it really could not be used. Karl Marx was tremendously keen on Darwinism as the Russian philosopher of communism. But Sidney Webb thought Darwinism made liberalism okay. So any one of three-party conferences going on now, you could have a Darwinist on the platform and you feel perfectly at home. And under those circumstances, of course, it really has no use at all because it's simply being used like religion to explain any conceivable pattern of human behavior on