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William Graham Sumner

Robert C. Bannister, the Swarthmore historian, . . . describes the situation: "Sumner's 'social Darwinism,'" he writes, "although rooted in controversies during his lifetime, received its most influential expression in Richard Hofstadter 's Social Darwinism in American Thought," which was first published in 1944.



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