Plenticidal Modernity's pruning hook unleashed against Victorian architecture

Well before the Jewish Holocaust, Plenticidal Modernity was at work busy eliminating all the "useless mouths" of exuberant Victorian architecture : the end result being the bare grey concrete monstrosities of  The International Style , that Auschwitz of Architecture.

The Victorian Era was also the era of the Evangelical Majority and it is very tempting to see the Evangelical belief in the worth of all the varieties of humankind echoed in their highly eclectic building style.

Great Chain of Being vs Darwin

In the pre-1859 thinking that lay behind the concept of The Great Chain of Being , all species of Life were born on the same day (all had a common birthday) but all were subject to different individual creations (so had different 'parents' , in a metaphorical sense).

 In 1859, Darwin neatly reversed this : now all species of Life had one common parent (some slimy little bacteria) but all the species had wildly different birthdays, as Life branched out over time from that early single bacteria's beginnings.

Cue the scientific 'justification' for Aktion T4 and the Holocaust.