By telling the squid and the Lobster story, the driver was trying to convey that the weak in the society would always be prey to the strong.
The Lobster and Squid story
Both water animals were put in the same tank. The squid was a weaker animal compared to the lobster. Gradually the lobster consumed the squid.
Abbott's response
Abbott's response to this would be that the survival of the fittest theory was a superiority contest where the weak has to eliminated.
He would talk of the inability of nature to protect the weak ones from the strong. According to him the world is made up of the impure and the pure substances.
The pure has to thrive to wipe out the impure substances. Abbott agrees with the survival of the fittest theory
Wards response
Frank Ward if he had read the financier would disagree with the principles it outlined.
According to him the society had to be improved. He would reject the survival of the fittest theory and instead agree that the strong has to help the weak in the society.
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