Social Darwinism is ‘stated as a social theory which hold to Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection', but this statement can be proven slightly wrong because logically Herbert Spencer, the scientist who is said to have created this theory after reading Darwin's Origin of Species, actually published his book sighting his theories on social darwinism, Progress: Its Law and Cause, two years before Darwin's book was published. The belief of Social Darwinism became popular in the late Victorian era in England, America, France and Germany, the theory states that the strongest and fittest should survive and flourish in society while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die.
The upper class society embraced the theory while other "less fortunate" societies didn't. This bought about social progression, if one society didn't want to be the weakest society they would try to ‘progress' and become a stronger, more advanced society. Social Darwinism has been manipulated into......

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Title: Social Darwinism
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