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? The Gospel of Wealth As a filthy-rich class emerged, so too did various views on wealth? Some, like Rockefeller, felt their wealth came from God. This was similar to the old divine-right monarchies of Europe. Carnegie spoke of a Gospel of Wealth saying the rich had a moral duty to spread the wealth (like spreading the Gospel). Perhaps the most common idea was Social Darwinism. Social Darwinism transposed Charles Darwin's new evolution and survival-of-the-fittest theories from biology to society. The Social Darwinism idea said that the reason certain people were at the top of their business was because they were the best adapted at running that industry. The opposite, of course, would apply to anyone at the bottom of the social or economic ladder.