Eugenics and Other Evils

Since prehistorical times, humans have been domesticating and breeding animals, selecting the individuals they liked the best and shaping species to their own needs. That’s how we got cats, dogs, pigs, cows and the rest. Perplexingly enough, I don’t know that humans have ever thought of designing th......more

Chesterton at his most lucid and persuasive, arguing forcefully against post-WWI British schemes to establish legal eugenics regimes. (The same thing was going on in the US at the same time, culminating in the Eugenics Society’s notorious 1927 test case Buck v. Bell, which went all the way to the Su......more

I believe it was @Megan Chappie who told me I should read this one? And, as always where Chesterton is concerned, she was right! Ahh, I love Chesterton so much. SO much. Just...he takes down Eugenics to its bases, reduction ad absurdum, so easily! And then goes on to attack Socialism, and Capitalism,......more

ENGLISH: At first I thought that this book would be outdated, as Eugenics, which was a problem in 1917, when the book was written, would no longer be a problem. But then, in the second part, I saw that just the name has been abandoned, due to the fact that Hitler appropriated it, but the contents ar......more

I write down commonplaces as I read books: little items worthy, as N. D. Wilson said, of imitation and remembrance. I have several of these empty, unlined notebooks filled, and have broken tradition with Chesterton in not actually keeping track. With Tolkien, I devoted an entire commonplace book. Wi......more