Social Sciences and History / Unit 4 SSH 0330 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Victorian Culture, Darwin, and Social Darwinism
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The idea
Victorianism, eighteen thirty-seven to nineteen oh one, set bourgeois norms and class uniforms. Sewers and Pasteur advanced health. Darwin's evolution was seized as Social Darwinism: Spencer's survival of the fittest, a phrase often misattributed to Darwin.
In practice
French male literacy from under half at the Revolution to nearly all by nineteen hundred.
Where people slip
First-wave feminism and modern anti-Semitism rose in the same decades.
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