They Live (Mid-19th Century Geology Controversy Version)

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I keep hearing that he was a fan of Malthus however he said: Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny at the end of the fifth century there would be alive fifteen million elephants

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The only British biologist that I can find he had a good word for was Francis Galton, who was keen on Eugenics and selective breeding. He owned a copy of Galton's Hereditary Genius (1869).

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We would adapt to the situation, after a lot of pain and death. And the new culture would make the conservative high honor repressive cultures we have now seem like free love hippy ones.

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Thanks to Greg Priest for this. Yep, survival of the fittest isn't the same as everyone out for themselves. Glad we don't have a society based on bee ethics.

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