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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 [[Individualism|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 [[racial]]ist party demanding internal purges against aliens — all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked [[Herbert Spencer|Spencer]] and Darwin, which was to say [[Scientism|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 this one: "Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an [[Individualism|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 [[racial]]ist party demanding internal purges against aliens — all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked [[Herbert Spencer|Spencer]] and Darwin, which was to say [[Scientism|science incarnate]]."<ref>http://www.creators.com/conservative/pat-buchanan/making-a-monkey-out-of-darwin.html</ref>
Subjects of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Ottoman Empires, such as [[Pole]]s, [[Ukrainian]]s, [[Balt]]s, [[Turkic]] peoples and other [[Muslim]]s found themselves fighting on both sides of the [[Central Powers]] and [[Triple Entente]]. The war was sparked when the heir of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Hapsburg]] throne was murdered in Austro-Hungarian subject state of [[Serbian Orthodox Church|Orthodox Serbia]].
Subjects of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, German and Ottoman Empires, such as [[Pole]]s, [[Ukrainian]]s, [[Balt]]s, [[Turkic]] peoples and other [[Muslim]]s found themselves fighting on both sides of the [[Central Powers]] and [[Triple Entente]]. The war was sparked when the heir of the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Hapsburg]] throne was murdered in the Austro-Hungarian subject state of [[Serbian Orthodox Church|Orthodox Serbia]].
=== A Spark Leads to a Fire ===
=== A Spark Leads to a Fire ===