Andrew Carnegie was Scottish and American and he led a profession in industrialism and philanthropy. Carnegie was the forerunner of the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century. According to Carnegie, “We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.” [Carnegie: 396] He was largely influenced by business and believed that although some may find themselves living in an unequal environment, the law of competition will always be advantageous and will allow the future progression of the human society. Moreover, in Carnegie’s view, he believed “Individualism, Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition, for these are the highest result of human experience, the soil in which society, so far, has produced the best fruit.” [Carnegie: 397] This view allowed Carnegie to believe that Darwin’s evolutionary ideas were essential in…show more content… According to Kropotkin, “It is a feeling infinitely wider than love or personal sympathy – an instinct that has been slowly developed among animals and men in the course of an extremely long evolution, and which has taught animals and men alike the force they can borrow from the practice of mutual aid and support, and the joys that can find in social life.” [Kropotkin 400] Therefore the acts of animals do not arise due to competition but particularly for the support of each other. He was also a firm believer that “no progressive evolution of the species can be based upon such periods of keen competition” [Kropotkin