1. Causes of WW1
... in 1859, and within a decade popularizers had used--or misused--his theories of natural selection and survival of the fittest to contemporary politics and economics. This pseudoscientific social Darwinism interested educated Europeans already discouraged by a century of higher criticism of religious scribbles and conscious of the competitiveness of their own daily lives in that age of freewheeling industrial capitalism. By the 1870s books were published explaining the results ... and findings of the Franco-German War, for example, with suggestion to the "vitality" of the Germanic common...
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