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Eugenics and Other Evils : An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State Paperback – December, 2000

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  • Paperback: 179 pages
  • Publisher: Inkling Books; 1st edition (December 2000)
  • Language: English
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  • ISBN-13: 978-1587420023
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Chilling Voice from the Past
By Brad Shorr on December 15, 2003
Format: Hardcover
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 ideas lurk more subtly behind such movements as birth control, abortion rights, euthanasia, and cloning. So, this book by GK is far more than an historical curiosity; the arguments he sets forth 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 historical focus, and is surprisingly light on religious considerations. He foresees that eugenics unleashed would result in an utterly inhuman society. Unfortunately the Nazis proved his theory. He foresees the dehumanizing effects of even a more moderate eugenics, which unfortunately has come to pass and is quite 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 actually played out in pre-WWII Europe, and gives us a better understanding of how it is happening now, and how we might reverse course.
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5.0 out of 5 starsRemains a great book
By Dalton C. Rocha on May 5, 2009
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I read this old and excellent book, here in Brazil.Writen by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936), when the pseudo-science of eugenics was perhaps more popular is USA, than ecology is today, this book remains excellent and relevant.And this happens, more than 80 years after its publication.
Then, eugenics was a thing supported by great american politicians, such as american Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Taft,Herbert Hoover,etc.Outside USA famous leaders such as the last Kaiser, Lenin, Stalin,etc. were eugenists.Famous 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 excellent book, when I could read:
"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 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 quite suddenly. Yet the two sentences, in cold logic, are exactly the same.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA brilliant and chilling warning
By P. Chan on August 20, 2003
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This masterpiece gravely addresses the dangers of scientism and genocide while still maintaining Chesterton's trademark wit and humor. Not only did Chesterton predict the Holocaust years before it happened, but he also provided a blueprint as to how such inhumanity could have been prevented. This book both promotes enlightenment and sparks controversy.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Great Book: In reply to John Wright's Review
By AGaul on January 21, 2004
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This negative review of Eugenics and Other Evils and its attack on Chesterton is all wrong. Chesterton understood "political economy" and other sterilizing Benthamite ideas all too well. Capitalism is ultimately anti-God, anti-Christian and evil, just as evil as atheistic Communism/Socialism. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc both advocated a distributivistic economy with private property, small owners and less wage workers. (Cheap labor, i.e., illegal and legal Mexican immigrants, does keep wages down and increases the proportion of the dispossesed in society. Why are all the high skilled computer jobs going overseas? Are we all going to be wage workers at Wal Mart?) Chesterton understood that the usury that enables massive growth is also ultimately dehumanizing for larger and larger segments of the population. Mad science and technology represented in part by Eugenics and today's human genome project (both originiating in the US at the Cold Spring Harbor lab. Hitler modeled his eugenics program after laws on the books in the Southern US prior to WWII) is rigourously controlled from top down to potentially serve the elite at the expense of you and me. History truly is a struggle against good and evil. Bentham and the elites of his day understood this and spent a lot of time devising clever ways the privileged few could keep an eye on the rest of us. Bentham's scientific Panopticon is implemented throughout society today (unconstitutional "temporary" federal income tax, licenses for everything, national id cards, color coded security risks, security cameras, smart shopping cards, rising prison populations, three-strikes laws, KNOWING OUR DNA/GENETIC MAKEUP) and defended by the likes of the anti-Chesterton's of this world. I have a feeling many libertarians deep down understand this but their hatred of humanity and self leads them to a hatred of God and prevents them from joining the good fight.
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a interesting take on the topic that has both sides together in a very insightful way

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I'm giving up on this book about half way through. I know many people love G. K. Chesterton, but I find some of his reasoning difficult to follow, even flawed. Read more

Published 6 months ago by Michael
5.0 out of 5 starsWhen did Chesterton write, again?

Almost terrifyingly applicable to current times, and well written.
I've been recommending it to friends and family.

Published 6 months ago by A. Hicks
1.0 out of 5 starsBook was one of those morbidly slow, coded books ...

Book was one of those morbidly slow, coded books that took a fiendishly straight forward topic and made it harder to comprehend then Thomas Aquanis' metaphysical nonsense!

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Published 13 months ago by Kerry L Marston
5.0 out of 5 starsHillary receive the M Sanger Eugenics award.

Eugenics is an evil concept that has great appeal to despotic leaders and governments.

Published 14 months ago by Thaddeus P.
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I found it quite surprising, how many of the arguments are still relevant today. Eugenics may not be as openly advocated as it was in 1913, but some aspects of the philosophy are... Read more

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