Social Darwinism in the United States in the late nineteenth century seems to have been the logical path for social theorists after the industrial revolution. The country had just experienced an industrial revolution and business was booming. Of course, along with the industrial revolution came larger separation of the social classes and countless poor. ... Sumner's essay on the concentration of wealth shows his political economist side with a few technical terms of Darwin thrown in the mix. ... Mutual aid seemed to do something that no other theory has been able to do before, include Ame...

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