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Eugenics and Other Evils

When the concept of eugenics -- the practice of selecting for desirable traits in the larger population by encouraging gifted and/or attractive people to breed -- began to take hold in the early twentieth century, British thinker and writer G.K. Chesterton took a stance contrary to that of many intellectuals of the period and denounced it as evil in this bold, engaging series of essays.

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  • "Eugenics and other evil"@pl
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  • "In Eugenics and Other Evils (1922), subtitled "An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized Society," Chesterton bravely battles with what he ridicules as the "Feeble-Minded Bill, a measure that would support a British political policy of sterilization and other methods of social cleansing that were being embraced in other European countries and the United States. With compelling arguments he reveals how eugenics is one more tool used by the State to suppress the landless poor."
  • "When the concept of eugenics -- the practice of selecting for desirable traits in the larger population by encouraging gifted and/or attractive people to breed -- began to take hold in the early twentieth century, British thinker and writer G.K. Chesterton took a stance contrary to that of many intellectuals of the period and denounced it as evil in this bold, engaging series of essays."@en
  • "Chesterton lambasts the "science of eugenics" along with what he views as other social evils in this collection of essays."@en
  • "Mr. Chesterton's long essay on eugenics and other evils was written in 1922, just a few years after the close of the 'Great War.' This war was not yet known as World War I, and it could not then be imagined that a greater calamity could be possible. Chesterton ends with the acidic observation that if his readers don't believe how toxic materialistic philosophies are, ""neither would they believe though one rose from the dead."" Prophetic; Chesterton would die in 1936, a few short years before the horrors of World War II, carried out once again by the hands of those who rejected Chr."@en

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  • "Eugenics and Other Evils"
  • "Eugenics and Other Evils"@en
  • "Eugenics and other evils"@en
  • "Eugenics and other evils"
  • "Eugenetics and other evils"
  • "La eugenesia y otras desgracias"@es
  • "Eugenika i inne zło"@pl
  • "Eugenics and other evils : In one volume"
  • "Eugenics and other evils, by G. K. Chesterton"
  • "Eugenetica e altri malanni : ragionamenti contro l'organizzazione scientifica della società"
  • "Eugenetica e altri malanni : ragionamenti contro l'organizzazione scientifica della società"@it

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