Eugenics and Other Evils
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included television journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy, and detective fiction. Chesterton has been called the “prince of paradox. ” He wrote in an off-hand, whimsical prose studded with startling formulations. He is one of the few Christian thinkers who are equally admired and quoted by both liberal and conservative Christians, and indeed by many non-Christians. And in his own words he cast aspersions on the marks adage, “The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on building mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. ” Chesterton wrote many books among which are: All Things Considered (1908), Alarms and Discursions (1910), The Ballad of the White Horse (1911), The Appetite of Tyranny (1915), The Everlasting Man (1925), The Secret of Father Brown (1927) and The Scandal of Father Brown (1935).
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I read this ancient and brilliant book, here in Brazil.Writen by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), when the pseudo-science of eugenics was perhaps more well loved is USA, than ecology is today, this book remains brilliant and significant.And this happens, more than 80 years after its publication.
Then, eugenics was a thing supported by fantastic american politicians, such as american Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Taft,Herbert Hoover,etc.Outside USA legendary leaders such as the last Kaiser, Lenin, Stalin,etc. were eugenists.Legendary scientists of this time, such as Thomas Alva Edison, Albert Einstein, Wright Brothers, Charles Lindenberg,Nicolas Tesla, etc. were eugenists.Writers such as H. G. Wells and Georger Bernard Shaw were eugenists and socialists.
At first, this book was a work of courage.It was against the political, scientific and press stablishment.
At second, this book is divided in parts:
PART ONE: THE FALSE THEORY.
PART TWO: THE REAL AIM.
I really read another ediction of this brilliant book, when I could read:
“Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that fleeting words startle them, while long words pacify them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the additional, but 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 endurance in the previous generations does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females?”; say this to them and they sway slightly to and fro like babies sent to sleep in cradles. Say to them “Murder your mother,” and they sit up reasonably suddenly. Yet the two sentences, in cold logic, are exactly the same.”
In another page of this book, I read:”I am myself primarily opposed to Socialism, or Collectivism or Bolshevism or whatever we call it, for a primary reason not immediately involved here: the ideal of property. I say the ideal and not merely the thought; and this alone disposes of the moral mistake in the matter. It disposes of all the dreary doubts of the Anti-Socialists about men not yet being angels, and all the yet drearier hopes of the Socialists about men soon being supermen. I do not admit that private property is a concession to baseness and egocentricity; I reflect it is a point of honour. I reflect it is the most truly well loved of all points of honour. But this, though it has everything to do with my plea for a domestic dignity, has nothing to do with this passing synopsis of the situation of Socialism. I only remark in passing that it is vain for the more brassy sort of Capitalists, sneering at ideals, to say to me that in order to despise Socialism “You must alter human scenery.” I answer “Yes. You must alter it for the worse.”
In the end of this book, there’s a third part, with articles writen by eugenicists/eugenicists. Ironically, they were doomed by time, as fake preachers.
The ediction that I read wasn’t this book, published by Dodo Press.Even so, my give my congratulation to all persons, publishing the works of this genius called Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936).
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
G.K. Chesterton was WAY yet to be of his time in the writing of this brilliant small book.. It’s just as pertinent today as it was in the early 1900’s. Fantastic stuff.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Eugenics was more than a pseudoscientific fad of the early 1900�s: it provided much of the philosophical underpinnings of the Nazi �master race� and its logical culmination in the concentration camps. Today its thoughts lurk more subtly behind such movements as birth control, abortion rights, euthanasia, and cloning. So, this book by GK is far more than an past curiosity; the opinion he sets into the world enable us to see far more clearly the dangers of conceding to a government, a group of elites, or even a vague movement, even a fraction of our rights and responsibilities concerning our own life, death, and progeneration. In the first third of the book, GK utterly dismantles the superficial logic of eugenics. In the second third, he exposes the real objectives of the movement that lay beneath the surface. The final third is a compilation of truly bone chilling articles and letters written by eugenicists of the period. Essentially, GK believes that the movement arose out of the capitalist desire to maintain cheap labor and the socialist desire to scientifically organize society. His analysis of these seemingly opposed forces has a heavy political, social, and past focus, and is surprisingly light on religious considerations. He foresees that eugenics unleashed would result in an utterly inhuman society. Sorry to say the Nazis proved his theory. He foresees the dehumanizing effects of even a more moderate eugenics, which sorry to say has come to pass and is reasonably evident in the monstrous plight of our poor, homeless, mentally handicapped, and unborn. How do these social horrors occur? GK believes that most people are right, but don�t know that they are right. Thus they�we–are susceptible and even defenseless to attacks by an organized group of activists driven by malevolent or merely foolish motives. This book shows how that really played out in pre-WWII Europe, and gives us a better understanding of how it is happening now, and how we might back course.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5