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"During the first three decades of the twentieth century, eugenics, the scientific control of human breeding, was a popular cause within enlightened and progressive segments of the English-speaking world. The New York Times eagerly supported it, gushing about the wonderful ""new science."" Prominent scientists, such as the plant biologist Luther Burbank, were among its most enthusiastic supporters. And the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations generously funded eugenic research intended to distinguish the ""fit"" from the ""unfit."" This prophetic volume counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while simultaneously rebuking Western 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 scientific officialism and strict social organization."""

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G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) was a journalist and later began writing books and pamphlets. His work includes novels, literary and social criticism, political papers, and spiritual essays in a style characterized by enormous wit, paradox, humility, and wonder. He converted to Catholicism in 1922 and explores the nature of spirituality in many of his books and essays, including the mighty Orthodoxy. Chesterton is one of the few genuinely timeless authors, whose work has as much relevance today as when it was written. Read by Derek Perkins.

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