" The later definition includes many more social theorists than the previous. ... The ardent question then became, what to do with the poor and how to deal with the new immigrants that were mostly seen as less civilized then western Europeans. ... How did social Darwinism then become synonymous with science? ... So then what was a social Darwinist in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century? ... Mutual aid in theory at least would have been much more appealing than Sumner's idea of social Darwinism. ...

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There are those who are nearly indifferent about the subject, and then there are those who wish to be taught both subjects rather than being told to believe one or the other. ... This forced a completely different idea into the minds of the students rather than just giving them another idea they could put into consideration of how they wished to believe. Theories were being taught in more of a way that meant to force ideas upon students rather than allowing them to just receive facts and nothing more. ...

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