2 question discussion

On page 224, second column, last paragraph, J.A. Hobson states: "Imperialism is a depraved choice of national life, imposed by self-seeking interests which appeal to the lusts of quantitative acquisitiveness and forceful domination surviving in a nation from earlier centuries of animal struggle for existence. Its adoption as a policy implies a deliberate renunciation of that cultivation of the higher inner qualities which for a nation as for an individual constitutes the ascendancy of reason over brute force." How does Hobson apply Darwin’s theory of evolution? What does your response to the latter question tell students of history about the advantages and/or disadvantages of Darwinian theory in the context of European imperialism?