“The former Episcopalian Christian minister William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) became in 1872 a professor of political economy at Yale College and America’s most forceful advocate of the idea that human society society advances through struggles and rivalries that result in the “survival of the fittest,” or the philosophy of “social Darwinism.” (Interference in this biological law of nature, he cautioned, might produce “the survival of the unfittest.”) Tichi, Cecelia. What Would Mrs. Astor Do? (Kindle Locations 2709-2710). NYU Press. Kindle Edition. Tichi, Cecelia. What Would Mrs. Astor Do? (Kindle Locations 2707-2709). NYU Press. Kindle Edition. ”

— survival of unfittest