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John Hall Snow was professor of pastoral theology at the Episcopal Divinity School and considered preacher-in-residence at Christ Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for over eighteen years. In this previously unpublished manuscript, Snow outlines his critique of American culture building on America's adoption of Herbert Spencer's social theory known as ""survival of the fittest."" The unconscious acceptance of his theory has reduced us to ""winners"" and ""losers,"" leading us to disfigure language and truth. Snow writes, ""We lie to others, and ourselves, basically, because we believe that lie

Social Darwinism. --- Darwinism, Social --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution

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truggle for existence, survival of the fittest ... It has long been believed that the use for political and social purposes of the theories of Charles Darwin was a specialty of the Anglo-Saxon countries only. Contrary to this generally accepted idea, the author maintains that a real Darwinian culture developed in France in the last century, far beyond the inner circle of scientists, and often against their will. For the attention to mediators of a scientific culture, this book shows how in his philosophical debates, religious and political, the France of the long nineteenth ecentury first expressed its fascination and then its reluctance for the new evolutionary ideas of Charles Darwin. The in-depth study of the phenomena of circulation, rooting or rejection of a scientific ideology ultimately sheds a singular light on the resistance of French scientists to Darwinian theories, resistance which made them fall far behind in the field of evolutionary biology.

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Before oxygen's discovery, scientists invoked a mysterious inner principle of fire to account for burning. Today, scholars appeal to an analogously unscientific inner principle, known as culture, to account for human actions. So what is wrong with culture?! It extends from the contents of Petrie dishes to art galleries and is far too imprecise for scientific use. Science aims to separate causes from effects but social scientists use “culture” indiscriminately as both cause and effect making scientific progress impossible. Finally, culture is a smokescreen distracting us from the quest for objective influences on human behavior. (Polygamy is more about parasites than religion, for instance). This book is both a critique of culture-centered social sciences and the manifesto for a new approach - evolutionary social science - that synthesizes evolution and sociology. The author demonstrates that a natural-science approach to human societies helps us to understand social problems such as health inequality and violent crime. Written in a more high-spirited and accessible style than is customary for academic works, The Myth of Culture is a full-throttle indictment of ivory-tower social scientists whose arcane lore does more to feather their nests than to advance knowledge, or solve human problems. It should have broad appeal among college-educated people around the world.

Social evolution. --- Human evolution. --- Social Darwinism. --- Darwinism, Social --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Physical anthropology --- Evolutionary psychology --- Human beings --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Origin

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Patrick Brantlinger here examines the commonly held nineteenth-century view that all "primitive" or "savage" races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that "savagery" is a sufficient explanation for the ultimate disappearance of "savages" from the grand theater of world history.Humanitarians, according to Brantlinger, saw the problem in the same terms of inevitability (or doom) as did scientists such as Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley as well as propagandists for empire such as Charles Wentworth Dilke and James Anthony Froude. Brantlinger analyzes the Irish Famine in the context of ideas and theories about primitive races in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. He shows that by the end of the nineteenth century, especially through the influence of the eugenics movement, extinction discourse was ironically applied to "the great white race" in various apocalyptic formulations. With the rise of fascism and Nazism, and with the gradual renewal of aboriginal populations in some parts of the world, by the 1930s the stereotypic idea of "fatal impact" began to unravel, as did also various more general forms of race-based thinking and of social Darwinism.

Eurocentrism. --- Genocide. --- Indigenous peoples. --- Social Darwinism. --- Autochtonen --- Darwinism [Social ] --- Darwinisme social --- Eurocentrism --- Eurocentrisme --- Genocide --- Génocide --- Inboorlingen --- Indigenous peoples --- Indigènes --- Inheemse bevolking --- Inheemsen --- Inlanders --- Native peoples --- Peuples indigènes --- Population autochtone --- Populations indigènes --- Sociaal Darwinisme --- Social Darwinism --- Volkenmoord --- Eurocentricity --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Darwinism, Social --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Indigenous populations --- Native races --- Ethnocentrism --- Crime --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution --- Ethnology --- Adivasis --- extinction of primitive people, robert knox, alfred wallace, savage races, nineteenth century racialism, nineteenth century extinction discourse. --- Autochtones

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Can Christian theology be reconciled Other Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection? Can the biological sciences tell us anything of interest from a religious perspective? Does Christianity have anything to offer when it comes to formulating scientific hypotheses? These questions are among those explored in this collection of essays arising from a meeting of the UK Science and Religion Forum held in Cambridge to mark the bicentenary of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the...

Natural theology. --- Social Darwinism. --- Natural selection. --- Darwinism, Social --- Competition --- Social change --- Social conflict --- Social evolution --- Natural religion --- Theology, Natural --- Apologetics --- God --- Religion --- Religion and science --- Theology --- Philosophy of nature --- Darwinism --- Selection, Natural --- Genetics --- Variation (Biology) --- Biological invasions --- Evolution (Biology) --- Heredity --- Darwin, Charles, --- Darwin, Charles, Robert