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== View on social Darwinism == While James accepted Darwin's theories of biological evolution, he regarded [[social Darwinism]] as propagated by philosophers such as [[Herbert Spencer]] as a sham. He was highly skeptical of applying Darwin's formula of natural selection to human societies in a way that put the Anglo-Saxons on top of the chain. James' rejection of social Darwinism was a minority opinion at Harvard in the 1870s and 1880s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Evan |title=The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 |year= 2010 |publisher=Little, Brown |isbn=978-0-316-08798-8 |pages=77β78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Yw4AQAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref>
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