Interesting.
Could you perhaps cite your source.

Gerry

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From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: Evolution and Cognitive Dissonance


> This past week, I read something "interesting":
>
> I read that Darwin *personally* believed that it was desirable
> for society to *not* apply itself to helping
> the "less fit", because this would weaken the species.  He
> apparently understood that this would entail a lot of persons
> suffering a lot.
>
> I believe there is a profound blindness in this, since
> I had earlier read that the only reason Darwin was able to function
> in life (and, e.g., to discover and publish the theory of evolution...)
was
> because of his inherited wealth and the ministrations of a
> devoted wife.
>
> In other words, on his own beliefs, Darwin should have
> suffered much and died young *instead* of being the founder of
> the various forms of "Darwinism".
>
> --Unless, of course, one believes that the fittest
> always survive *by definition*, in which case a fragile creature like
Darwin
> was clearly evolutionarily superior to a person with
> Charles Atlas's body and Einstein's brain but who had
> the bad luck to be born anywhere that social
> conditions would have precluded him from "flowering".
>
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>
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