How did John Gast show the difference between civilized and uncivilized lands in his painting American Progress?

Gast uses his painting to tell the message that the United States is destined to expand West. The painting illustrates that the West is a dark and savage land, populated by Indians and wild beasts. By entering these barbaric lands, America will civilize and tame the territory.

john smith was the first englishman to sail around the world. francis bacon served as attorney general and lord chancellor of england. he took up aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry.

darwinism is survival of the fittest there for social darwinism is the survival of the wealthiest