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Narrado por:
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Derek Perkins
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G. K. Chesterton
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During the first three decades of the 20th 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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Common Sense
- De: Thomas Payne
- Narrado por: Mike Vendetti
- Duración: 2 h y 22 m
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Read by award-winning narrator Mike Vendetti, Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 that inspired people in the Thirteen Colonies to declare and fight for independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. The pamphlet explained the advantages of and the need for immediate independence in clear, simple language. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution and became an immediate sensation.
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very funny
- De Drew en 03-13-17
De: Thomas Payne
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The Enlightenment
- The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
- De: Ritchie Robertson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Keeble
- Duración: 40 h y 9 m
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This magisterial history - sure to become the definitive work on the subject - recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.
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The quickest 40 hour audio book I’ve listen to
- De Joey Caster en 04-02-21
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From Superman to Man
- De: J.A. Rogers
- Narrado por: Hal Saunders
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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J.A., Roger's novel, first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance behind racism. The plot is based around a debate between a Pullman porter and a racist politician. The author deals with racism and bigotry in an exemplary way.
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Truth vs Lies
- De Vahojeh en 09-05-19
De: J.A. Rogers
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Anarchism and Other Essays
- De: Emma Goldman
- Narrado por: Suzanne Toren
- Duración: 8 h y 41 m
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Among the men and women prominent in the public life of early 20th-century America there are but few whose names are mentioned as often as that of Emma Goldman. Yet the real Emma Goldman is almost quite unknown. Here are powerful, penetrating, prophetic essays on direct action, the role of minorities, prison reform, puritan hypocrisy, and violence.
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Critical reading for today's world
- De Darwin en 02-27-17
De: Emma Goldman
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Angels and Ages
- A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
- De: Adam Gopnik
- Narrado por: Adam Gopnik
- Duración: 7 h y 21 m
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Written 200 years after Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln shared a birthday on February 12, 1809, this insightful account sheds new light on two men who changed the way we think about the meaning of life and death. Award-winning journalist Adam Gopnik's unique perspective, combined with previously unexplored stories and figures, reveals two men planted firmly at the roots of modern views and liberal values.
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Connecting Darwin and Lincoln
- De Joshua Kim en 06-10-12
De: Adam Gopnik
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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom)
- De: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Narrado por: Michael Lunts
- Duración: 10 h y 55 m
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The Gay Science (The Joyful Wisdom) is one of Nietzsche's greatest books. His wonderfully fertile mind roams over mankind, his thoughts, his emotions, his behaviour and his weaknesses with remarkable clarity, with insight - but also with humour!In this work are 383 separate paragraphs, some short, some long, but all singular observations - the epitome of his famous aphoristic style. 'Morality is the herd instinct in the individual.'
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I am now a full-fledged fan of Nietzsche
- De RS en 02-24-18
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If You Can Keep It
- The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty
- De: Eric Metaxas
- Narrado por: Eric Metaxas
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we truly understand what our founding fathers meant for us to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the "noble experiment in ordered liberty" that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of the tremendous fragility of that experiment and explains why that fragility has been dangerously forgotten.
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Exceptional book
- De Trish Legarth en 07-26-16
De: Eric Metaxas
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Life Is Worth Living, Part 1
- De: Archbishop Fulton J Sheen
- Narrado por: Fulton J. Sheen
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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Here is the best of the audio from the famous Catholic television program, "Life is Worth Living!" For more than 30 years, Archbishop Fulton Sheen was the voice of the Catholic Church, with his radio and television ministries that touched hearts all over the world. His wisdom and gentle insight are once again available in digitally remastered audio recorded from his live programs.
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Amazing audiobook!!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 07-03-14
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The Portable Atheist
- Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
- De: Christopher Hitchens
- Narrado por: Nicholas Ball
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever gathering of the influential voices past and present that have shaped his side of the current (and raging) God/no-god debate. With Hitchens as your erudite and witty guide, you'll be led through a wealth of philosophy, literature, and scientific inquiry, including generous portions of the words of Lucretius, Benedict de Spinoza, Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Mark Twain, and more.
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This is ABRIDGED
- De David Wolf en 06-05-08
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The Tyranny of Clichés
- How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Jonah Goldberg
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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According to Goldberg, if the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, the greatest trick liberals ever pulled was convincing themselves they’re not ideological. Today “objective” journalists and academics and “moderate” politicians peddle some of the most radical arguments by hiding them in homespun aphorisms.
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I enjoyed it...and I'm a Democrat!!
- De Private. en 05-14-12
De: Jonah Goldberg
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- De: Adam Rutherford
- Narrado por: Greg Patmore
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America. With disarming wit and scientific precision, Rutherford explains why eugenics still figures prominently in the twenty-first century, despite its genocidal past. And he confronts insidious recurring questions, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of the idea, and the scientific impossibility of its realization.
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Excellent 2023 update on genetics
- De Roy en 01-11-25
De: Adam Rutherford
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The Everlasting Man
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Considered by many to be Chesterton's greatest masterpiece, this audiobook declares his comprehensive view of world history as informed by the Incarnation. Retelling mankind's story from the very beginning, he shows how all human desires are fulfilled in the person of Christ and Christ's church. With his characteristic brilliance and irony, he argues that Christianity is not just a religion to stand beside other religions, for the fact of the Incarnation sets it apart.
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Way over my head.
- De Kenzie en 03-07-19
De: G. K. Chesterton
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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Dubbed the "Dumb Ox" by his classmates for his shyness, Saint Thomas Aquinas proved to be possessed of the rarest brilliance, justifying the faith of his teacher, Albertus Magnus, and sparking a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's unsurpassed examination of Aquinas' thinking makes his philosophy accessible to listeners of any generation.
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I finally get Chesterton
- De Gil Michelini en 01-06-19
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The GK Chesterton Collection
- Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Ball and the Cross, What's Wrong with the World, The Ballad of the White Horse, The Flying Inn, A Short History of England, The Dregs of Puritanism, & Liberalism
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Museum Audiobooks Cast
- Duración: 51 h y 21 m
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns. He was a columnist for the Daily News and The Illustrated London News.
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The reader makes the difference
- De Proclaimer en 07-09-21
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The Dark Tower, and Other Stories
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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The revered author’s definitive collection of short fiction, which explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind. As powerful, inventive, and profound as his theological and philosophical works, The Dark Tower reveals another side of Lewis’s creative mind and his longtime fascination with reality and spirituality. It is ideal listening for fans of J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis’s longtime friend and colleague.
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Buyer beware... incomplete works
- De Breezybealle en 01-19-20
De: C. S. Lewis
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A Short History of England
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Stewart Crank
- Duración: 7 h y 11 m
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A Short History of England (1917) is Chesterton’s commentary on the philosophical, social, and religious history of England. The book focuses on those highlights that have shaped the nation, and is presented in the author’s customary wit. Having displayed strong Roman Catholic leanings at this time of his life, the author equates Anglicanism with atheism, but does commend the upliftment achieved by the Wesleyans. Chesterton views the story of England as the story of robber barons who became an aristocracy and who concealed their rise to power and hegemony through Parliament.
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Control
- The Dark History and Troubling Present of Eugenics
- De: Adam Rutherford
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Control is a book about what geneticist Adam Rutherford calls “a defining idea of the twentieth century.” Inspired by Darwin’s ideas about evolution, eugenics arose in Victorian England as a theory for improving the British population, and quickly spread to America. With disarming wit and scientific precision, Rutherford explains why eugenics still figures prominently in the twenty-first century, despite its genocidal past. And he confronts insidious recurring questions, revealing the intellectual bankruptcy of the idea, and the scientific impossibility of its realization.
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Excellent 2023 update on genetics
- De Roy en 01-11-25
De: Adam Rutherford
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The Everlasting Man
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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Considered by many to be Chesterton's greatest masterpiece, this audiobook declares his comprehensive view of world history as informed by the Incarnation. Retelling mankind's story from the very beginning, he shows how all human desires are fulfilled in the person of Christ and Christ's church. With his characteristic brilliance and irony, he argues that Christianity is not just a religion to stand beside other religions, for the fact of the Incarnation sets it apart.
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Way over my head.
- De Kenzie en 03-07-19
De: G. K. Chesterton
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 5 h y 27 m
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Dubbed the "Dumb Ox" by his classmates for his shyness, Saint Thomas Aquinas proved to be possessed of the rarest brilliance, justifying the faith of his teacher, Albertus Magnus, and sparking a revolution in Christian thought. Chesterton's unsurpassed examination of Aquinas' thinking makes his philosophy accessible to listeners of any generation.
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I finally get Chesterton
- De Gil Michelini en 01-06-19
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The GK Chesterton Collection
- Heretics, Orthodoxy, The Ball and the Cross, What's Wrong with the World, The Ballad of the White Horse, The Flying Inn, A Short History of England, The Dregs of Puritanism, & Liberalism
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Museum Audiobooks Cast
- Duración: 51 h y 21 m
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a British writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary critic. Chesterton wrote around 80 books, several hundred poems, some 200 short stories, several plays, plus 4,000 essays and newspaper columns. He was a columnist for the Daily News and The Illustrated London News.
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The reader makes the difference
- De Proclaimer en 07-09-21
De: G. K. Chesterton
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The Dark Tower, and Other Stories
- De: C. S. Lewis
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 5 h y 6 m
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The revered author’s definitive collection of short fiction, which explores enduring spiritual and science fiction themes such as space, time, reality, fantasy, God, and the fate of humankind. As powerful, inventive, and profound as his theological and philosophical works, The Dark Tower reveals another side of Lewis’s creative mind and his longtime fascination with reality and spirituality. It is ideal listening for fans of J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis’s longtime friend and colleague.
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Buyer beware... incomplete works
- De Breezybealle en 01-19-20
De: C. S. Lewis
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A Short History of England
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Stewart Crank
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A Short History of England (1917) is Chesterton’s commentary on the philosophical, social, and religious history of England. The book focuses on those highlights that have shaped the nation, and is presented in the author’s customary wit. Having displayed strong Roman Catholic leanings at this time of his life, the author equates Anglicanism with atheism, but does commend the upliftment achieved by the Wesleyans. Chesterton views the story of England as the story of robber barons who became an aristocracy and who concealed their rise to power and hegemony through Parliament.
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Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Eugenics and Other Evils
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- Colin C.
- 08-12-22
Eugenics at it's midpoint
A logical and philosophical argument against Eugenics. I found this work valuable and relative to where the US political social structure is heading, or at, today; c.2022
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- KFam
- 01-20-22
Surprisingly Relevant
Although Chesterton is riddled with some of the flaws of his time - especially in his perspective on other races - in most other respects he is filled with wisdom and addresses a philosophy which still threatens us today. Great performance as well.
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- Alex H.
- 10-20-21
A still relevant topic in the current year
While Chesterton suffers from some from being very much a man of his time and place, he still lays out eloquent and well-reasoned arguments for his rallying against eugenics and other social ills.
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- Viktor V. Choban
- 04-21-21
Very insightful and incisive and revealing
Just a thin was a genius but he did not understand some things Especially bout Calvinism
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- John
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Anarchy from Above
While some details have changed in the century since this book first appeared—for example, rather than oppressing the poor with low wages, we now use subsidies—the main thesis stands as true as ever. We moderns may not call it eugenics, but we still dispose of our unwanted in the most up-to-date, scientifically approved manner. It’s just one facet of what Chesterton calls “anarchy from above”:
“Now it is plain that this sort of chaos can possess the powers that rule a society as easily as the society so ruled. And…it is the powers that rule who are chiefly possessed by it—who are truly possessed by devils. The phrase, in its sound old psychological sense, is not too strong. The State has suddenly and quietly gone mad. It is talking nonsense; and it can't stop.”
Yet for all his dire analysis, Chesterton can still make you laugh out loud – a sure sign of his profound sanity. As he says, “We have to be flippant about these things, as the only alternative to being rather fierce.” To reviewers who want to peg him as liberal or conservative, I can only say he was Catholic, and so able to take the best from both sides (no doubt an essential source of his sanity). As with The Everlasting Man, Derek Perkins' delivery suits Chesterton’s style to perfection.
Note: For an historian’s account of the eugenics movement, there’s no better picture that Richard Overy’s The Twilight Years: The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-11-23
Good
The information in this book was mind blowing give it 4stars because I didn’t feel like the author was being really truthful
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- K. Doerr
- 01-19-21
Never more timely
If you don't know the history of the Eugenics movement, and how it swept through academia more than 100 years ago, snaring even Karl Pearson into promoting the idea of Ubermensch, you won't find a funnier introduction to an idea that killed 100 million people than this book.
To fully understand the irony of the current wave of racism, you really need to start with that silly syphilitic Nietzsche, and work your way through Hitler and Rand to our current little titans.
Or, you could read this book. Sort of the Cliff Notes to the devolution of a stupid idea. Clear thinking about how evil people can be when their self-serving biases make them think they are doing good. With jokes.
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- The Phil
- 01-12-23
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Chesterton is fantastic. So clear and to-the-point. Brilliant in his turn-of-phrase and his manner of tearing down awful ideas.
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- Stephen Krieger
- 09-18-20
Prescient thoughts and logic
I tend to appreciate Chesterton’s thinking and really enjoy his fiction. This work is a wonderful insight into the thoughts and arguments against both early capitalism and early socialism. Interestingly, while I often hear Chesterton quotes from the political right, he’s no friendlier to the capitalist than to the Marxist. Of all his books this does highlight the problematic way in which Chesterton addresses ethnicity and race. While I don’t view him as outright anti-Semitic or racist as some do, he certainly is at best a product of his time. Granted that, the book’s primary logic about the oppression of the poor and disenfranchised by the rich, is apt for our world and the turmoil therein.
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- Kim Padan
- 12-21-22
Remarkably relevant
It always takes me a while to absorb any GKC writings. He was brilliant and witty, but his style of writing is very different than most of today's writers. I appreciate his sharp criticism of eugenics and socialism. This book was published in 1922 when eugenics was popular and promoted by many elites, but before Hitler's widespread practice of the philosophy.
While the book is 100 years old, it remains relevant.
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