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    Eugenics and Other Evils
    Eugenics and Other Evils
    Eugenics and Other Evils
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    Eugenics and Other Evils

    Written by G. K. Chesterton

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    Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them "The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females"; say this to them and they will sway slightly to and fro like babies sent to sleep in cradles. Say to them "Murder your mother," and they sit up quite suddenly. Yet the two sentences, in cold logic, are exactly the same. (Summary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

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    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    G. K. Chesterton

    G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was a prolific English journalist and author best known for his mystery series featuring the priest-detective Father Brown and for the metaphysical thriller The Man Who Was Thursday. Baptized into the Church of England, Chesterton underwent a crisis of faith as a young man and became fascinated with the occult. He eventually converted to Roman Catholicism and published some of Christianity’s most influential apologetics, including Heretics and Orthodoxy. 

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    • 1/5
      This essay manages to use a great deal of words to say very little. It wanders and rambles far too much for my liking. The author keeps saying he’s going to define eugenics, but never quite does, instead diverging into a variety of analogies that don’t seem to pertain to the subject in question. Perhaps this was acceptable writing back in the time this was composed, but in my opinion it doesn’t hold up to today’s standards.
    • 5/5
      Good but unfinished. I always love g k cheststerton.. awesome.