Eugenics and Other Evils

Description

This book targets the once-popular view that the State should regulate how (and with whom) its citizens ought to breed. Chesterton talks a lot of good sense about how morally and practically dangerous such regulatory schemes must be, and why they inevitably lead to coercive and intrusive legislation. State control of the population has been deeply discredited since Chesterton wrote but these schemes have a nasty habit of resurfacing. While his subject-matter is serious and often pretty grim, Chesterton never loses his lightness of touch and the book is never dull or preachy.

This book has 114 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1922.

Production notes: This ebook of Eugenics and Other Evils was published by Global Grey in 2018.