Eugenics and Other Evils
G. K. Chesterton published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922, gathering arguments he had begun before the First World War, when the idea of improving the human race by controlled breeding was fashionable among scientists, reformers and writers such as Bernard Shaw. In the first part he attacks the theory itself, its vague science and its readiness to let experts and officials decide who may marry and have children. In the second part he looks at the real aims he saw behind the movement, linking it to the interests of employers and to a wider loss of respect for the poor and for liberty. Witty and combative, the book reads now as a prescient warning. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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What kind of book is Eugenics and Other Evils?
Eugenics and Other Evils by G. K. Chesterton is filed under "Classics" in the Vinteuil library.
