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Darwin's former apprentice, Thomas Huxley, delivers a speech against social Darwinism.

1893

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In Evolution and Ethics, Huxley argues against social Darwinism's misuse of the evolutionary theory to justify cruelty and extreme social competition, saying that natural selection is a description of biological life and not meant to be used to further political ends.