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The greatest authority of all the advocates of war is Darwin. Since
the theory of evolution has been promulgated, they can cover their
natural barbarism with the name of Darwin and proclaim the san-
guinary instincts of their inmost hearts as the last word of science. 81
In Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage, Jacques
Barzun, a history teacher at Columbia University, stated that
Darwin stoked the fires of militarism and warfare everywhere:
During World War I, the Germans employed mustard gas in
violation of the rules of war. The picture shows a British
soldier killed by that gas.
