#Repost @matthewcookeofficial ・・・ Our modern image of Santa and the character of Scrooge are icons of Christmas that were born of the era of the civil war and workers rights. Charles Dickens and Thomas Nast were artists in service to human values. 🎄Merry Christmas! And happy holidays! Fine point / Correction: Thomas Malthus was not quoting Darwin. Malthus’ mistaken theories on population helped inspire and inform Darwin’s Natural Selection, and the allegory of “survival of the fittest” as a cruel justification for sociopathic public policies.