ught that it was only by raising the average intellectual standard of the nation by one grade could the survival and expansion of the nation be assured, and so his eugenics was nothing less than a program for national survival (Jones 6-7).
Darwinism had a profound influence on Western society even as it remained controversial and rejected by segments of the population. Charles Darwin offered in his work a new paradigm for human development, a new view of the cause of biological phenomena observed in nature. Darwin's view was strong, so much so that Darwinian ideas were applied not only to biological phenomena but also to social theory and the newly created science of psychology. One reason for criticism of Darwinism was the uses to which it was put by some, as noted by T. H. Huxley in 1893 with reference to a prevalent fallacy, the idea that Darwin said that plants and animals had evolved in a progressive direction because of the struggle for existence and the resulting "survival of the fittest," and that th
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