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Thus the Socialists prove that, different from the 

 animal world, the competitive struggle existing be- 

 tween men does not bring forth the best and most 

 qualified, but destroys many strong and healthy ones 

 because of their poverty, while those that are rich, 

 even if weak and sick, survive. Socialists prove that 

 personal strength is not the determining factor, but it 

 is something outside of man; it is the possession of 

 /money that determines who shall survive and who 

 . shall perish^ V ^|^ ^^K//^/ ^^ ^ 



VI. NATURAL LAW AND SOCIAL THEORY. 



The false conclusions reached by Haeckel and 

 Spencer on Socialism are no surprise. Darwinism and 

 Marxism are two distinct theories, one of which ap- 

 plies to the animal world, while the other applies to 

 society.' They supplement each other in the sense 

 that, according to the Darwinian theory of evolution, 

 the animal world develops up to the stage of man, and 

 from then on, that is, after the animal has risen to 

 man, the Marxian theory of evolution applies, ^yhen, 

 however, one wishes to carry the theory of one domain 

 into that of the other, where different laws are ap- 

 plicable, he must draw wrong inferences. 



Such is the case when we wish to ascertain from 

 natural law what social form is natural and applicable, 

 and this is just what the bourgeois Darwinists did. 

 They drew the inference that the laws which govern 

 in the animal world, where the Darwinian theory ap- 

 plies, apply with equal force in the capitalist system, 

 and that therefore capitalism is a natural order and 

 must endure forever. On the other hand, there were 



