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The Thing Works Out Until It Doesn’t: GKC and Evolution, Part II

This continues my previous post. ———————————————————– G. K. Chesterton hated people-breeding.  Eugenics, which he called “a thing no more to be bargained about than poisoning,” was perhaps the only idea that he wrote an entire book to destroy (Eugenics and Other Evils, 1922).1 It’s easy to forget how mainstream eugenics was in the early twentieth century,... Read More

The Thing Works Out Until It Doesn’t: GKC and Evolution, Part I

I posted this two-part essay on G. K. Chesterton, evolution, and eugenics on this blog quite a while ago — but the original is no longer available online, and a butchered version has been posted on a thing called, I think, the Anti-Fascist Encyclopedia, where it’s received a goodly number of “Likes.”  It seems a pity that the undamaged version isn’t out there — so, now it is. ————————————————————————————————– In... Read More