I aimed at Americas heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach. This statement, attributed to writer Upton Sinclair, is in reference to Sinclairs novel, The Jungle. The Jungle, written in the early twentieth century, depicts the horrors and corruption of the cities and its industries. Specifically, the novel is aimed at putting down the meat packaging industry. The novel's title symbolizes the competitive nature of the city; the world of Packingtown, the place where the protagonist, Jurgis, abodes, is like a Darwinian jungle, in which the strong prey on the weak and all living things are engaged in a brutal fight for survival. This can be summed up as, Social Darwinism, a nineteenth century philosophy which essentially held that society
