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| | American Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Such competition, indeed, is useful and good, for in the long run those that survive will have competed and won, a clear statement of their superiority. |
| | Spencer, Sumner and others, such as the industrialist Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), argued that the social implication of the fact of such struggle for survival is that free-market capitalism is the natural economic system and the one that will ensure the greatest success for a society's economic well-being. |
| | In Sumner’s essay, "The Man of Virtue," he remarks that, "Every man and woman in society has one big duty. |
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