Eugenics and Other Evils Audiobook (Free)

Through the first three decades from the twentieth century, eugenics, the scientific control of human mating, was a favorite trigger within enlightened and progressive sections of the English-speaking world. THE BRAND NEW York Situations eagerly backed it, gushing about the beautiful “new technology.” Prominent scientists, such as the flower biologist Luther Burbank, had been among its most enthusiastic supporters. As well as the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations generously funded eugenic analysis intended to differentiate the “match” from your “unfit.”This prophetic volume counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while simultaneously rebuking European notions of progress-biological or otherwise. Chesterton expands his criticism of eugenics into what he calls “a more general criticism of the modern craze for technological officialism and rigorous social corporation.”