His writings were done in England, from whence they traveled to America. William Grant Sumner. This Yale professor taught many future corporate leaders how to apply the ruthless methods of evolutionary theory to success in business. Freud believed that people are only animals who recapitulate the wild, uncontrollable animalism of their ancestors. His view of psychology placed the study of human behavior on an evolutionary basis.
Humans are only animals.
A leading justice on the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years, he powerfully influenced its decisions. He gave it the view that law is evolving and that the court's decisions should also. A thoroughgoing atheist, Wells not only wrote science fiction, but he also openly attacked religion. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This famous mystery writer was both a leading evolutionist and an avid spiritualist.