Eugenics and Other Evils by G K Chesterton

Eugenics and Other Evils by G K Chesterton

In the second decade of the twentieth century, an idea became all too fashionable among those who feel it is their right to set social trends. Congress agree, passing the 1924 immigration law to exclude from American shores the people of Eastern and Southern Europe that the idea branded as inferior. In 1927, the U. S. Supreme Court joined the chorus, ruling by a lopsided vote of 8 to 1 that the sterilization of unwilling men and women was constitutional. That idea was eugenics and in the English-speaking world it had virtually no critics among the chattering classes. When he wrote this book, Chesterton stood virtually alone against the intellectual world of his day. He thunders against eugenics, ranking it one of the great evils of modern society. And, in perhaps one of the most chillingly accurate prophecies of the century, he warns that the ideas that eugenics had unleashed were likely to bear bitter fruit in another nation.

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ISBN 13	9781985007864
ISBN 10	198500786X
Title	Eugenics and Other Evils
Author	G K Chesterton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Year published	2018-02-03
Number of pages	160
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