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The scientific consensus around Darwinism was representative of larger cultural trends that worried conservatives.

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Steeped in social Darwinism, Mellon viewed the acquisition of wealth as a mark of merit and poverty as a failure of character.

A prediction for the date of the president's ouster, a lawsuit against Darwinism and other terrific ideas from America's fringe.

But in our past there has been another term for it - Social Darwinism, every man and woman for him or herself.

Our Constitution, Holmes famously wrote, does not enact social Darwinism.

He is a not just a grinning creationist, he is also willing to disdain Darwinism with a sinister pugnacity.

At a time when Darwinism was bringing a sword into the intellectual world, he lived apparently uninterested and untouched by it.

Only the other day I read in my newspaper the triumphant proclamation of some clergyman that "Darwinism" had been overthrown.

Among these are several on anthropology, on political economy, and even on Darwinism.

One of the speakers, a clergyman, said that Darwinism and infidelity were responsible for criminal driving.

He thinks that if he can prove that the evolutionists kill people, he will have disproved Darwinism.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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