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Eugenics and Other Evils
"Eugenics and Other Evils," by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. I think G.K. Chesterton explains his book rather well in his introduction, but it might help to start with a sense of the time in question. Chesterton started work on Eugenics and Other Evils in about 1910, but it was not completed and published until 1922. In his own introduction he talks about the period before and after "The War." The war he refers to is now called World War One. We now have a distaste for the word Eugenics, largely driven by events in World War Two. But at the time this book was published, Eugenics was lauded...
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I greatly enjoyed this book and grateful you took the time to put it out for the world to rediscover. Its as if this book could of been written for today. That shortly after his warnings WWII brought the true reality of Eugenic Theory to fruition is a sad and cruel irony. I had never heard of GK...Read full review »
Fighting Multiple Sclerosis via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/11/17
Eugenics and Other Evils
Anything David Grizzly Smith chooses to narrate is worth a listen. This book, by G. K. Chesterton, is spectacular in its anticipation of many of the moral questions of our day. As always, Chesterton is excellent at turning convention wisdom on its head.
jazzmonk1 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 06/21/16
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