Lester Ward stressed the need for social planning and reform, and rebelled against the __________ model which saw each succeeding society as improving on the one before it.

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Lester Ward was a critic of Social Darwinism, a theory that applied Darwin's ideas of natural selection to societies, suggesting that stronger societies would naturally outcompete weaker ones. Ward believed in the potential for social planning and reform to improve society, rather than leaving societal progress to natural selection.

Lester Ward Stressed the Need for Social Planning and Reform