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Darwin argued that species develop and evolve over time, as those who have one or another advantage triumph in the struggle for survival. This idea was adopted by public thinkers. Some of them, calling themselves social Darwinists, began to argue that various groups of people - nations, classes and races - like animal species, also fight among themselves for survival. Social Darwinists argued that the weak should not survive, that public policy and private morality should protect the strong, that human populations should be formed in accordance with the ideals of the dominant groups.

Scientists in this area upheld the principle of personal responsibility for the material well-being of each particular family, talked about the inevitability of social inequality. The denial of the possibility of social equality made poverty legal.

On the contrary, the Social Gospel movement was a response to the problems that have arisen in American society due to the rapid growth of industrialization, urbanization and an increase in the influx of emigrants during the “gilded age.” The economic crisis has led to a wide gap between the living standards of a small, wealthy stratum and the vast majority of American workers. Against the background of these processes, the movement of the Social Gospel arose and developed in American society, which demanded the achievement of social justice: it called for the struggle against economic inequality and poverty. In the future, many ideals of the movement were embodied in the laws of the New Deal - the economic policy of President Roosevelt

The striving for social justice in frames of the Social Gospel movement was grounded in the biblical principles of mercy and justice. Proponents of the Social Gospel supported the labor movement and called for government intervention in a market economy to achieve general welfare.

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