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Title: Eugenics and Other Evils

Author: G. K. Chesterton

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EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS

Eugenics and
Other Evils

By

G.K. Chesterton

Cassell and Company, Limited
London, New York, Toronto & Melbourne
1922

TO THE READER

I publish these essays at the present time for a particular reason
connected with the present situation; a reason which I should like
briefly to emphasise and make clear.

Though most of the conclusions, especially towards the end, are
conceived with reference to recent events, the actual bulk of
preliminary notes about the science of Eugenics were written before
the war. It was a time when this theme was the topic of the hour; when
eugenic babies (not visibly very distinguishable from other babies)
sprawled all over the illustrated papers; when the evolutionary fancy
of Nietzsche was the new cry among the intellectuals; and when Mr.
Bernard Shaw and others were considering the idea that to breed a man
like a