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The fittest survive. what is meant by the fittest? not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. there is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' darwinism: that survivors survive.
-Charles Fort
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The Fittest Survive. What Is Meant By

Charles Fort
The fittest survive. what is meant by the fittest? not the strongest; not the cleverest - weakness and stupidity everywhere survive. there is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive. 'fitness,' then, is only another name for 'survival.' darwinism: that survivors survive.
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