Liberalism's Ambiguous Legacy - University of Michigan

The Struggle forSurvival“The forces which are working out the great scheme of perfecthappiness, taking no account of incidental suffering, exterminate suchsections of mankind as stand in their way, with the same sternness thatthey exterminate beasts of prey and herds of useless ruminants. . . .What are the pre-requisites to a conquering race? Numerical strength,or an improved system of warfare, both of which are indications ofadvancement. . . . The conquest of one people over another has been,in the main, the conquest of the social man over the anti-social man; or,strictly speaking, of the more adapted over the less adapted.”- From Herbert Spencer, Social Statics (1851)