Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

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Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State

by G.K. Chesterton, Michael W. Perry (Editor)

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"The main text of this book comes from the definitive 1922 edition ... published by Cassell and Company of London"--T.p. verso.

Paperback, 180 pages

Published October 1st 2000 by Inkling Books (first published 1922)

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Jun 11, 2012 D.M. Dutcher rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: classic, nonfiction

Don't be fooled by the title or how old this book is. It is an amazing takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought as well as a profound argument against unregulated capitalism. It not only does those, but highlight problem after problem that you never have even considered before. And it was done contra mundi, during a time when eugenics was considered even more respectable than evolution is today.

It doesn't do the book justice to summarize its many arguments, but I'll list a few just to giv...more Don't be fooled by the title or how old this book is. It is an amazing takedown of the entire basis of eugenic thought as well as a profound argument against unregulated capitalism. It not only does those, but highlight problem after problem that you never have even considered before. And it was done contra mundi, during a time when eugenics was considered even more respectable than evolution is today.

It doesn't do the book justice to summarize its many arguments, but I'll list a few just to give an idea.

-that it impossible to be a eugenicist because while sickness is the same among all men, health is if anything a balance specific to each type. It's easy to diagnose a broken leg, but how can you diagnose a healthy one? Or define it?

-that eugenicists often argue that poverty and the moral dissolution that comes from it are reasons to use eugenics, but they unconsciously believe that the poor's poverty is always fixed and will or even should ever change. He argues damningly that the reasons why the rich embrace this is because their wealth is dependent on keeping other men poor and beaten down so they can accept starvation wages.

-That eugenics and its mindset are negative without positive, and mad. A master tells a slave he may sleep here and no other place, or he will kill him. A eugenicist tells a tramp that he cannot sleep in the park or the woods, but refuses to give him any place to sleep at all. The master treats his slave harshly, denying him liberty, but at least he treats him as a living being. The eugenicist treats him as a mass, or a thing.

It's all done in Chesterton's signature style: clear, lucid, using paradox and example. It's not just attacking eugenics, but the foundations of modern capitalism and law that create the conditions for it, and it's sure to challenge anyone regardless of their political persuasion.

The physical book also adds appendixes that show just how prevalent eugenic thought was. Chesterton was one of the few voices in opposition of it, and you'd be not a little horrified at the abyss we nearly descended into. Whether reading it free or buying the paperback it's well worth it. A timeless treasure that is even more relevant today than then.(less)

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May 26, 2011 Jordan rated it 5 of 5 stars

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For the most part, eugenics has receded as a respectable academic discipline. But while one would have a hard time finding blatant exponents of the idea of eugenics, the principles of eugenics are very much alive today. The common misconception is that they died with Nazism, but even a cursory glance at the social and political landscape proves that to be false.

So, while much has been done to discredit eugenics, its spectre still hovers around us today, threatening to snatch up the wage-earners,...more

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Apr 14, 2011 Jesse Broussard rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: chesterton, excellent, non-fiction

I write down commonplaces as I read books: little items worthy, as N. D. Wilson said, of imitation and remembrance. I have several of these empty, unlined notebooks filled, and have broken tradition with Chesterton in not actually keeping track. With Tolkien, I devoted an entire commonplace book. With Chesterton, I'm not even going to bother trying. His complete works are contained in 37 (or more) large volumes put out by Ignatius Press, and I will just have to allow that to be my Chesterton com...more I write down commonplaces as I read books: little items worthy, as N. D. Wilson said, of imitation and remembrance. I have several of these empty, unlined notebooks filled, and have broken tradition with Chesterton in not actually keeping track. With Tolkien, I devoted an entire commonplace book. With Chesterton, I'm not even going to bother trying. His complete works are contained in 37 (or more) large volumes put out by Ignatius Press, and I will just have to allow that to be my Chesterton commonplace book, though I will continue adding in some of his best.

This book, Eugenics and Other Evils, is about what it says it's about, which is odd enough, as Chesterton stays remarkably and uncharacteristically on topic. I think having a target to dismantle has something to do with it, but not really a whole lot, as he proves the impossibility of Eugenics in a single sentence somewhere towards the middle of the book. The other possibility is that his topic is a large enough cage for his mind to momentarily content itself within its confines, which seems more realistic.

Chesterton is always sheer delight to read, always fun, always unbelievably brilliant and flippant and enormous, but I had rarely encountered him with an axe in his hand, and he proves Lewis right: for the child with an axe, the joy is in chopping. This book could has a great deal of writing against government interference in the private sphere, and is written defending the old ways, the noble and chivalrous ways over and against the new ways, the stainless steel and minds too close to Saruman's in their obsession with wheels and machines. The eugenist desires to improve the overall quality of life in the same way that Nietschze did, simply a bit earlier. Instead of letting the diseased and weak die, the eugenist just ensures that they aren't ever born by preventing those genetically prone to weakness and disease from breeding, which was a staggeringly popular idea.

Indeed, it was the single driving influence in the life of the one person whose effect in our century alone has outweighed Stalin, Lenin, Hitler, Pol Pot and every other dictator we've seen. This person has caused more deaths than all of our enlightened genocides and all of the the Medieaval plagues. Combined. Eugenics was the inspiration of that madonna of death, Margaret Sanger. And we think eugenics is a bad joke. In reality, it was a very good joke, an evil joke, but skillful, and we are the punchline, though it turned out to be more indiscriminate than was originally intended.

Perhaps I've read too much Chesterton: I'm acquiring his habits without the skill. Or perhaps I've been up too long. A book review has turned into a tirade against Planned Parenthood. Blame it on whatever you like; I'll rectify it here: the book was magnificent, and I'm going to bed.

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Aug 14, 2012 Nicole rated it 4 of 5 stars

If a gross injustice appeared disguised in scientific lingo and talk of progress, would I recognize it for what it is? That was the question I had in mind as I started this book. I greatly admire Chesterton and his contemporaries for recognizing eugenics for the monster it was, and without the benefit of hindsight.

Few writers can make me feel so utterly uneducated and dimwitted as Chesterton can. But somehow the challenge is rewarding rather than defeating. This book challenged my views on the...more

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Jun 15, 2010 Brent rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Everyone

A fantastic work, rivaling even Orthodoxy with its razor sharp insight, wit and prescience.

Chesterton was an early opponent to eugenics at a time when it was very fashionable. With a clarity that is as tragic as it is brilliant, Chesterton foretold what was to come. There are many things that can be said about the Holocaust, but one thing that cannot be said is that we were not warned.

In addition to dealing with the Eugenists, Chesterton also speaks on economics and freedom. Building on the fou...more

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Feb 04, 2010 Joel Dougherty rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: cultural-commentary, history

"You will observe that he tacitly takes it for granted that the small wages and the income, desperately shared, are the fixed points, like day and night, the conditions of human life. Compared with them marriage and maternity are luxuries, things modified to suit the wage-market. There are unwanted children; but unwanted by whom?" (Eugenics and Other Evils, part 2, chap. 5)

"We call in the doctor to save us from death; and, death being admittedly evil, he has the right to administer the queerest...more

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May 06, 2010 Skylar Burris rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: philosophy, politics, economics

Chesterton began this book in the 1910’s, before eugenics realized its full horror in the holocaust, but it is a disturbingly prophetic and surprisingly poignant book even in our own day. What makes this book so arresting is that it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds subtly, about politics, and about economics.

Especially interesting was Chesterton's categorization of the four types of defenders of eugenics, because these categories can apply to the defenders of a gre...more Chesterton began this book in the 1910’s, before eugenics realized its full horror in the holocaust, but it is a disturbingly prophetic and surprisingly poignant book even in our own day. What makes this book so arresting is that it is about far more than eugenics: it is about how evil succeeds subtly, about politics, and about economics.

Especially interesting was Chesterton's categorization of the four types of defenders of eugenics, because these categories can apply to the defenders of a great many social policies, past and present, and they describe well the various kinds of insufficient arguments used in political discourse. There are the Euphemists, who do not call a policy by its real name or speak of it in blunt language, but use scientific terminology and much verbosity to disguise its more disturbing ramifications. (“I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them ‘The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable,…’; say this to them and they will sway slightly to and fro like babies sent to sleep in cradles. Say to them, ‘Murder your mother,’ and they sit up quite suddenly. Yet the two sentences, in cold logic, are exactly the same.”) Then there are the Casuists, who equate their more disturbing policies with much more limited policies and suggest that if you permit the one, you must concede the other. (“Suppose I say, ‘I dislike this spread of Cannibalism in the West End restaurants.’ Somebody is sure to say, ‘Well, after all, Queen Eleanor when she sucked blood from her husband’s arm was a cannibal.’ What is one to say to such people? One can only say, ‘Confine yourself to sucking poisoned blood from people’s arms, and I permit you to call yourself by the glorious title of Cannibal.’”) Next are the Autocrats, who trust that their proposed reforms will, despite all possible concerns, work out okay, because they’ll be there to make sure they work out okay. (“Where they will be, and for how long, they do not explain very clearly…And these people most certainly propose to be responsible for a whole movement after it has left their hands.”) Then there are the Endeavourers, who optimistically rely on their honest attempts to deal with a problem, without bothering to determine what the effects of their policies will be. (“[T:]he best thing the honest Endeavourer could do would be to make an honest attempt to know what he is doing. And not to do anything else until he has found out.”) Finally, there is a category “so hopeless and futile” that Chesterton says he cannot think of a name for them. “But whenever anyone attempts to argue rationally for or against any existent and recognizable thing, such as [a specific piece of:] legislation, there are always people who begin to chop hay about Socialism and Individualism; and say, ‘YOU object to all State interference…’” But, Chesterton insists, “I am not going to be turned from the discussion of that direct issue to bottomless botherations about Socialism and Individualism, or the relative advantages of always turning to the right and always turning to the left.”

Chesterton offers insight, too, into how tyranny develops, how “the excuse for the last oppression will always serve as well for the next oppression.” And he predicts a state that is on its way to arriving, and has, in small part, already arrived: “our civilization will find itself in an interesting situation, not without humour; in which the citizen is still supposed to wield imperial powers over the ends of the earth, but has admittedly no power over his own body and soul at all. He will still be consulted by politicians about whether opium is good for China-men, but not about whether ale is good for him. He will be cross-examined for his opinions about the danger of allowing Kamskatka to have a war-fleet, but not about allowing his own child to have a wooden sword.”

I credit Chesterton with partly revising my view of Socialism, which I have always seen as a system that, unlike Capitalism, does not take into account the fact of original sin (and therefore assumes that a redistribution of wealth could actually work without causing many to stop working altogether). While I still think socialism overlooks human motivations, and that, practically speaking, Capitalism makes better outcomes of a fallen world, I can now agree with Chesterton that Socialism is not actually (as I formerly believed) a system founded primarily on naïve optimism. “The Socialist system,” he writes, “in a more special sense than any other, is founded not on optimism but on original sin. It proposes that the State, as the conscience of the community, should possess all primary forms of property; and that obviously on the ground that men cannot be trusted to own or barter or combine or compete without injury to themselves. Just as a State might own all the guns lest people should shoot each other, so this State would own all the gold and land lest they should cheat or rackrent or exploit each other….it seems almost incredible that anybody ever thought it optimistic.” The problem, of course, is that the State too is composed of fallen men. Socialism and Capitalism are both, Chesterton argues, types of prisons, but at least in the prison of Capitalism, there is more chance of escape. “Capitalism is a corrupt prison. That is the best that can be said for Capitalism. But it is something to be said for it; for a man is a little freer in that corrupt prison than he would be in a complete prison. As a man can find one jailer more lax than another, so he could find one employer more kind than another; he has at least a choice of tyrants.” In a Socialist system, however, “he finds the same tyrant at every turn.”

In any event, we now have neither Socialism nor Capitalism, but a horrid compromise, which Chesterton describes well: “It may be said of Socialism, therefore, that its friends recommended it as increasing equality, while its foes resisted it as decreasing liberty….The compromise eventually made was one of the most interesting and even curious cases in history. It was decided to do everything that had ever been denounced in Socialism, and nothing that had ever been desired in it…we proceeded to prove that it was possible to sacrifice liberty without gaining equality….In short, people decided that it was impossible to achieve any of the good of Socialism, but they comforted themselves by achieving all the bad.”

Sometimes Chesterton requires great patience to follow. He will move from medieval planning to the American colonies to Shakespeare to the French War in a matter of pages, and one cannot help but wonder, “Where is this going? What does this have to do with the topic of his book?” But if you are patient, the connections do come, and they are often rewarding. And there is always wit sprinkled throughout his work; even while reading a volume on so serious and heavy a topic as “Eugenics and other evils,” I found myself laughing out loud.
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Apr 09, 2011 David rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: philosophy

This book was truly prophetic. George Bernard Shaw said of G.K. Chesterton "he was a man of colossal genius"-- he most certainly was. But Chesterton was beyond intelligent. He was wise.

That is, he had a firm grasp on human nature. He represented the absolute best side of cynicism and while he may have been a cynic, Chesterton was not a pessimist.

His social commentary was priceless, not to mention way ahead of its time. To my knowledge, Chesterton was the one of the only voices at the time to spe...more

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Mar 20, 2011 Mary rated it 4 of 5 stars

What's Chesterton's theory? I'm kind of on a Chesterton kick--don't know if you noticed--but I'm still trying to sort his ideas out. He combines a kind of libertarian dislike of government interference in morality with a Christian (especially Catholic) concern for "living wages" for the poor. This book is very bold, especially at a time when even U.S. president Woodrow Wilson was a proponent of eugenics and, as the Chesterton society points out "The New York Times gave it constant and positive c...more

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Feb 10, 2013 Giedre Kubiliute rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is a brilliant book, I don't know how I managed to avoid reading G.K.Chesterton up until now. I wish I'd read this book ages ago, it's easy to read, clear, written with humour and sarcasm at times and it made me think and change my views on things I never really stopped and thought about.

Although there were one or two arguments where I couldn't fully agree with Chesterton (perhaps due to my lack of in depth knowledge or analysis of the subject), this is such a current book despite the fact...more

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May 27, 2012 Carl Hesler rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: econ-or-politics, thinking

I read the first half of the book, plus some of the second. I am so thankful that Chesterton could write a book like this. It's almost like a social history of abortion, written seriously, yet with humor and compassion. It argues against eugenics on verbal, social, and political grounds. As with birth control, Chesterton views eugenics as an oppression of the poor. I find this both outmoded and intriguing. Outmoded, because it relies on an early-1900s view of "capital and labor" (and seems to ov...more

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Aug 31, 2010 Daniel rated it 5 of 5 stars

Bloody amazing.

I am kicking myself for not having read Chesterton constantly, continually, and so very thoroughly much, much earlier in my career. And I have no plausible excuse. I was quite familiar with the name Chesterton due to the ongoing friendly rivalry that he had with George Bernard Shaw. And there was always the indirect Chesterton quote that the very famous personality Michael Palin eventually delivered during the opening segment of the Ripping Yarns series. Yet I never picked anythi...more

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Mar 05, 2012 Ellen rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book, like Chesterton's Orthodoxy, is a collection of arguments and speeches given in response to the assertions of leading eugenics supporters in England in the 1920s. Many of his thoughts apply to today's battles over abortion and contraception and the government's role in providing them. Chesterton makes a clear and powerful reasoning for keeping the grasping government's hand out of the individual's most private life.

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Nov 02, 2011 Kathy rated it 4 of 5 stars

It's amazing how many topics that Chesterton tackled are still with us today. They have different names, but the concepts are still there. I think his main point is the dignity and worth and value of every living soul. No one has the right to trample on the rights of others, even in the name of "helping" them. Some of the allusions are out-dated now, but Chesterton is always biting and bright.

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Jul 04, 2009 Mike rated it 3 of 5 stars

In truth, I didn't read the whole thing, but abandoned the book about halfway through. Not because I disagree with Chesterton's reasoning or conclusions, but I only began the book as a continued exploration of the subject matter of "The Immortalists," but soon knew that my enthusiasm lay with resuming my fiction reading list. Mayhap one day I'll circle back and finish "Eugenics and Other Evils."

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Oct 30, 2009 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars

If one is familiar with the Eugenics argument, then Eugenics and Other Evils is well worth reading. If one does not have at least a basic grasp of the Eugenics argument then I would not recommend this book. There is a good argument for Distributism in the last couple of chapters in this book that are well worth reading for anyone.

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Jun 12, 2011 Johanna rated it 4 of 5 stars

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A bit lengthy, but compelling none the less. It is terrifying to think that such evil people existed, and perhaps even more terrifying that they still exist today, masquerading their cold-blooded intents under the guise of science and the "betterment" of human society. If you thought that eugenics and ethnic cleansing ended with the nazis, take a close look at the major heads of the green movement. Many are calling for a culling of the human race, and where else would they start but with the sic...more

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Nov 13, 2012 Thomas rated it 5 of 5 stars

Excellent, written 90 years ago, but you would think it was written today- except that Chesterton was a fantastic writer, most modern journalists are not fit to stand in his shadow, and it was a big shadow.

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Jan 22, 2013 Erik Olson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Chesterton is an amazing linguist. Some examples are dated, but the language and concepts involved are not. A great read!

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Aug 29, 2012 Robert Vandiver rated it 5 of 5 stars

More mind stretching writing.

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Dec 14, 2011 Precentor rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: my-books

Definitely an excellent book and timeless in many of the social problems it points out.

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Jul 15, 2012 Athens rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: philosophy, e-books

Chesterton is really quite enjoyable to read.

I often disagree with his premises and outcomes of his thinking, but the thinking itself is something to behold. A brilliant man.

Will read more of his.

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Oct 31, 2011 Ryan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Who would have thought that a book on such a topic would be such a great read.

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Great book!

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About G.K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) cannot be summed up in one sentence. Nor in one paragraph. In fact, in spite of the fine biographies that have been written of him (and his Autobiography), he has never been captured between the covers of one book. But rather than waiting to separate the goats from the sheep, let’s just come right out and say it: G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the twent...more Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) cannot be summed up in one sentence. Nor in one paragraph. In fact, in spite of the fine biographies that have been written of him (and his Autobiography), he has never been captured between the covers of one book. But rather than waiting to separate the goats from the sheep, let’s just come right out and say it: G.K. Chesterton was the best writer of the twentieth century. He said something about everything and he said it better than anybody else. But he was no mere wordsmith. He was very good at expressing himself, but more importantly, he had something very good to express. The reason he was the greatest writer of the twentieth century was because he was also the greatest thinker of the twentieth century.

Born in London, Chesterton was educated at St. Paul’s, but never went to college. He went to art school. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly. (To put it into perspective, four thousand essays is the equivalent of writing an essay a day, every day, for 11 years. If you’re not impressed, try it some time. But they have to be good essays, all of them, as funny as they are serious, and as readable and rewarding a century after you've written them.)

Chesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology. His style is unmistakable, always marked by humility, consistency, paradox, wit, and wonder. His writing remains as timely and as timeless today as when it first appeared, even though much of it was published in throw away paper.

This man who composed such profound and perfect lines as "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried," stood 6’4" and weighed about 300 pounds, usually had a cigar in his mouth, and walked around wearing a cape and a crumpled hat, tiny glasses pinched to the end of his nose, swordstick in hand, laughter blowing through his moustache. And usually had no idea where or when his next appointment was. He did much of his writing in train stations, since he usually missed the train he was supposed to catch. In one famous anecdote, he wired his wife, saying, "Am at Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" His faithful wife, Frances, attended to all the details of his life, since he continually proved he had no way of doing it himself. She was later assisted by a secretary, Dorothy Collins, who became the couple’s surrogate daughter, and went on to become the writer’s literary executrix, continuing to make his work available after his death.

This absent-minded, overgrown elf of a man, who laughed at his own jokes and amused children at birthday parties by catching buns in his mouth, was the man who wrote a book called The Everlasting Man, which led a young atheist named C.S. Lewis to become a Christian. This was the man who wrote a novel called The Napoleon of Notting Hill, which inspired Michael Collins to lead a movement for Irish Independence. This was the man who wrote an essay in the Illustrated London News that inspired Mahatma Gandhi to lead a movement to end British colonial rule in India. This was a man who, when commissioned to write a book on St. Thomas Aquinas (aptly titled Saint Thomas Aquinas), had his secretary check out a stack of books on St. (less)

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