Chesterton's polemic against the new 'science' of eugenics. With prescience and wit he deconstructs the absurdities of the Eugenicist movement, pointing to its potential for ill-use, dangers which soon proved true in the Nazis' murder of the disabled and mentally ill. Despite its age, a thought-provoking and surprisingly contemporary book.
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Chesterton's polemic against the new 'science' of eugenics. With prescience and wit he deconstructs the absurdities of the Eugenicist movement, pointing to its potential for ill-use, dangers which soon proved true in the Nazis' murder of the disabled and mentally ill. Despite its age, a thought-provoking and surprisingly contemporary book.
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