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Little remains of British rule today across the globe, and it is mostly restricted to small island territories such as Bermuda and the Falkland Islands. However, a number of countries still have Queen Elizabeth as their head of state including New Zealand, Australia and Canada - a hangover of the Empire.<ref>[https://www.theweek.co.uk/tags/british-empire  ''How big was the British Empire and why did it collapse?''], The Week</ref>}}

Little remains of British rule today across the globe, and it is mostly restricted to small island territories such as Bermuda and the Falkland Islands. However, a number of countries still have Queen Elizabeth as their head of state including New Zealand, Australia and Canada - a hangover of the Empire.<ref>[https://www.theweek.co.uk/tags/british-empire  ''How big was the British Empire and why did it collapse?''], The Week</ref>}}

== Evolutionism/Darwinism as a cause of the collapse of the British Empire ==

== Darwinism/evolutiomism as a cause of the collapse of the British Empire ==

 

 

[[Image:CharlesDarwin.jpg|thumb|160px|right|[[Charles Darwin]] in 1880 at the age of 71.]]

[[Image:CharlesDarwin.jpg|thumb|160px|right|[[Charles Darwin]] in 1880 at the age of 71.]]

[[World War I]] and [[World War II]] greatly weakened the British Empire.

[[World War I]] and [[World War II]] greatly weakened the British Empire.

Historian Jacques Barzun observed how [[Darwinism]] caused the horrendous brutality of the wars leading up to this one: "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> For more information, please see: [[World War I and Darwinism]]

Historian Jacques Barzun observed how [[Darwinism]] caused the horrendous brutality of the wars leading up to this one: "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> For more information, please see: [[World War I and Darwinism]]

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