Eugenics and Other EvilsChesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Philosophy
Eugenics and Other Evils
Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Eugenics
Sexual selection a destruction of Eugenics, 9
Shaw, Bernard, 162
and Sidney Webb, 161
as Puritan, 69
Slaves, breeding of, 10
Slum children, Mrs. Alec Tweedie and, 143
Smiles, Dr. Samuel, and the English tramp, 119
Snobbishness, an inverted, 117
Socialism as oppressor of the poor, 166
Socialism, the transformation of, 159 _et seq._
Socialist system, foundation of the, 159
Socialists, and "solidarity," 46
their view of the State, 163
Specialists (medical) and madness, 40, 41
Spiritual pride, an example of, 96
Spiritual world, the, author's belief in, 63
State, the, and compulsion, 14
Socialist view of, 163
Statistics, fundamental fallacy in use of, 61
Steinmetz, Dr. R.S., 8, 181
Stevenson, R.L., and pre-natal conditions, 45
Temperance Reform, 164
Temple, Sir William, and Dorothy Osborne, 7
Tithes, question of, 75
Tory conception of anarchy, the, 22
Tramp, true history of a, 101 _et seq._
Truant schools. Socialists and, 167
Tweedie, Mrs. Alec, and the children of the slums, 143
Tyranny of government by Science, 76
Vaccination, compulsory, 77
Vanity, hereditary--and other, 62
Victorian Individualists, optimism of, 118
snobbishness, 117
Wages, "rise and fall of," 47
Webb, Sidney, and Bernard Shaw, 161
Wells, H.G., 55, 154
author's criticism of, 69-70
his "Mankind in the Making," 70
White Slave traffic, punishment for, 25
Witchcraft, punishment for, 26
Witch-hunting and witch burning, 63, 64
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