inferior races

Was Josiah Strong A Social Darwinist?

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Was Josiah Strong A Social Darwinist? Josiah Strong, a Protestant clergyman and author of “Our Country: Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis (1885)” was a prominent leader in the movement to apply Darwinist principles to society (Social Darwinism). Was Josiah Strong for or against imperialism? In the 1890s he also emerged as one of

How Does Strong Describe The Anglo-Saxon Race?

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How Does Strong Describe The Anglo-Saxon Race? In his 1885 book Our Country, Strong argued that Anglo-Saxons are a superior race who must “Christianize and civilize” the “savage” races, which he argued would be good for the American economy and the “lesser races”. How did strong describe the Anglo-Saxon race? In his 1885 book Our