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How did the industrial and religious leaders as well as the government justify accumulation of wealth and resources according to Social Darwinism and the Gospel of Wealth during the late nineteenth century

...... In order to understand the impact of Social Darwinism one also has to understand the importance and respect given to science in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Darwinism was seen by many to be a scientific explanation of the truth of nature. This was also the era were science was the accepted method of understanding natural and social life and this therefore adds to its status and verifiability. Applying this model to society therefore means that those who could accumulate the most wealth were seen not as being acquisitive or greedy but rather as being at the top rungs of the ladder of social evolution. In the final analysis both the Gospel of wealth and Social Darwinism provide an ideological and moral basis of the justification of the accumulation of wealth
In conclusion, the industrial leaders of the 19th century used two different but linked ideological means of justifying the accumulation of wealth. The first that was discussed was the ideology of the accumulation of wealth as a means of prosperity for all that was in fact sanctioned by an interpretation of the ideal of prosperity in the Bible. The Christian Gospels were used to support the ideal