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The leading philosopher of the day was Herbert Spencer. As a child, he had been very strictly brought up. The principle of this upbringing became for Spencer the innermost secret of life. All living things are forced to progress through punishment. Nature appears to be an immense reformatory in which ignorance and incompetence are punished with poverty, illness, and death.
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"Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

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You already know enough. So do I. It is not knowledge we lack. What is missing is the courage to understand what we know and to draw conclusions.
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Fariha The time machine is an experiment with Spencer’s theory of evolution. The novel shows how mankind, as the time traveler puts it, “commits suicide” by minimizing the pain that is the mother of intelligence and evolution.
Dr. Moreau uses his surgical skill to create a kind of human being out of animals. He tortures the animals so that pain will increase the pace of their evolutionary progress: “Each time I dip a living creature into the bath of burning pain, I say, this time I will burn out all the animal, this time I will make a rational creature of my own. After all, what is ten years? Man has been a hundred thousand in the making.”


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