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How does H. G. Wells refute the theory of social Darwinism in The Time Machine?

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correct answer is B

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By showing that both the upper and lower classes have evolved into degraded forms .

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Social Darwinism is a theory of social selection that seems to infer to the same theory of natural selection the way Charles Darwin had implied in his distribution of plants and animals. This theory may be applied to the concepts of sociology, politics, and economics.

The science-fictional novella "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells evolves around the theme of time travel and how this concept of social Darwinism also applies to the people n society. But contrary to the way Darwin approaches or shows, Wells refutes this theory when he presents the case of the Morlocks and the Eloi. The Eloi were beautiful and perfect in every way but lazy to do any work. The Morlocks, on the other hand, were primitive and aggressive, with both classes degrading in their trajectory. This is how he refutes the Social Darwinism theory, showing how both classes of the society, upper and lower, have evolved into a much more degrading form from their regular one.

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