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*[[Social Darwinism]]
*[[Social Darwinism]]
=== Darwinism and brutality in war ===
=== Darwinism and brutality in war ===
''See also:'' [[World War I and Darwinism]]
Historian Jacques Barzun observed how Darwinism caused the horrendous brutality of the wars leading up to [[WWI]]: "Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens — all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate."<ref>http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/making-a-monkey-out-of-darwin.html</ref>
Historian Jacques Barzun observed how Darwinism caused the horrendous brutality of the wars leading up to [[WWI]]: "Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens — all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate."<ref>http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/making-a-monkey-out-of-darwin.html</ref>