Events Tagged: "Social Darwinism"

Herbert Spencer develops Social Darwinism - nature's effort to get rid of unfit

Wilhelm Schallmayer wins Krupp Prize for essay on heredity and selection, promoting social Darwinist policies in Prussia

General von Bernhardi's 'Germany and the Next War': 'War is a biological necessity... Without war, inferior or decaying races would easily choke the growth of healthy budding elements'

World War I - German military doctrine based on Darwinian philosophy; Kaiser: 'the Reich needs new territory'

Vernon Kellogg documents: 'The creed of the almightiness of natural selection based on violent struggle is the gospel of the German intellectuals'