Malthus book had been widely read, but Darwin's swept all before it. Not only did biologists now have a compass to steer by, but social philosophers and, particularly, enterprising industrialists and galloping imperialists could now justify the exploitation of their workers, the.....

"Malthus book had been widely read, but Darwin's swept all before it. Not only did biologists now have a compass to steer by, but social philosophers and, particularly, enterprising industrialists and galloping imperialists could now justify the exploitation of their workers, the maintenance of a permanent pool of unemployed labor, and the expropriation and exploitation of "inferior" or "superannuated" races. Biologists could claim that animals are in a constant state of "warfare" with one another, and that....

Ashley montagu, on being human