Impersonal forces v

 

  Suddenly, the deadlock was broken; Perry: " it was now a war of movement" // dateline 21st March 1918

  There were two weeks of taking 1250 square miles.

  There was astonishing British resistance.

  And, German exhaustion

           shortages

                       Food

                       Ammunition

before a 2nd German offensive in April of that same year, the year that the Germans launched an attack.

  There had been twenty years of surge in authoritarianism and democracy collapsing in many places like Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Germany.

  "Darwinism ultimately...."

  "Darwinism contributed to the waning of religious belief and to a growing secular attitude, which dismissed or paid scant attention to the Christian view of a universe designed by God and a soul that rises to heaven.  For many, the conclusion seemed inescapable; nature contained no divine design or purpose, and the human species itself was a chance product of impersonal forces" (398).