Unfortunately I doubt that Darwin saying more would have prevented that. Perhaps they would call it something else, but more likely they would just ignore it. T

Unfortunately I doubt that Darwin saying more would have prevented that. Perhaps they would call it something else, but more likely they would just ignore it. There are plenty of things that Adam Smith said against modern capitalism, but that doesn’t stop people from holding him up as an icon. (And the same is true for basically every ideology and religion!)