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Daily Question:
"Competition, therefore, is a law of nature. Nature is entirely neutral; she submits to him who most energetically and resolutely assails her. She grants her rewards to the fittest, therefore, without regard to other considerations of any kind... Such is the system of nature. If we do not like it, and if we try to amend it, there is only one way in which we can do it. We can take from the better and give to the worse. We can deflect the penalties of those who have done ill and throw them on those who have done better. We can take the rewards from those who have done better and give them to those who have done worse... Let it be understood that we cannot go outside of this alternative; liberty, inequality, survival of the fittest; not-liberty, equality, survival of the unfittest. The former carries society forward and favors all its best members; the latter carries society downwards and favors all its worst members"
-William Graham Sumner, The Challenge of Facts, 1882
The idea expressed in this excerpt most clearly show the influence of which of the following?
A. John Locke's Second Treatise of Government
B. Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations
C. Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
D. Charles Darwin's On the Origins of Species
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