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To: Akula who wrote (1053)	10/12/1999 9:49:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

There was a long period of "Social Darwinism." The most famous supporter being Herbert Spencer, and Sumner at Yale. It was a strange compound of right wing business men and radical economists and social scientists. It was well anticipated and summarized in "A Christmas Carol" in which Scrooge asks the charity canvassers "Are there no prisons, no workhouses?" Notice that Dickens was criticizing the sink or swim social theory of the Victorian Age and promoting more Christian charity.