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May 26, 2020

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.

Chapter 5 --The Meanness of the Motive:

"Now, if any ask whether it be imaginable that an ordinary man of the wealthier type should analyse the problem or conceive the plan, the inhumanly far-seeing plan, as I have set it forth, the answer is: "Certainly...


May 19, 2020

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.

Chapter 4 -- The Vengeance of the Flesh:

"By a quaint paradox, we generally miss the meaning of simple stories because we are not subtle enough to understand their simplicity."

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May 12, 2020

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.

Chapter 3 -- True History of a Eugenist:

"He does not live in a dark lonely tower by the sea, from which are heard the screams of vivisected men and women. On the contrary, he lives in Mayfair."

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May 5, 2020

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.

Chapter 2 -- True History of a Tramp:

"He awoke in the Dark Ages and smelt dawn in the dark, and knew he was not wholly a slave."

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Apr 28, 2020

"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.

Part 2 -- The Real Aim

Chapter 1 -- The Impotence of Impenitence

"The root formula of an epoch is always an unwritten law, just as the law that is the first of all laws, that which protects life from the murderer, is written nowhere in the Statute...