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Eugenics and Other Evils (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

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By G. K. Chesterton

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Nov 29, 2011
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200 pages
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BookAnnex
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9781411463912

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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.


G. K. Chesterton

About the Author

G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a larger-than-life writer who fascinates and perplexes us to this day.  An art student who became a poet, and then by turns a journalist, playwright, biographer, novelist, storyteller, philosopher, and “Christian apologist,” his fame rested on an uncanny ability to produce vast quantities of crystalline prose quickly and without apparent effort.  His fiction–particularly the Father Brown stories and the delirious suspense novel The Man Who Was Thursday–remains his most widely read and entertaining works.

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