Eugenics and Other Evils - Chesterton, G. K.
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Mr. Chesterton's long essay on eugenics and other evils was written in 1922, just a few years after the close of the 'Great War.' This war was not yet known as World War I, and it could not then be imagined that a greater calamity could be possible. Chesterton ends with the acidic observation that if his readers don't believe how toxic materialistic philosophies are, "neither would they believe though one rose from the dead." Prophetic; Chesterton would die in 1936, a few short years before the horrors of World War II, carried out once again by the hands of those who rejected Christianity and…mehr

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Mr. Chesterton's long essay on eugenics and other evils was written in 1922, just a few years after the close of the 'Great War.' This war was not yet known as World War I, and it could not then be imagined that a greater calamity could be possible. Chesterton ends with the acidic observation that if his readers don't believe how toxic materialistic philosophies are, "neither would they believe though one rose from the dead." Prophetic; Chesterton would die in 1936, a few short years before the horrors of World War II, carried out once again by the hands of those who rejected Christianity and embraced a secular humanism grounded in atheistic evolutionary theory. This deserves our careful consideration, and no author demands it with such wit, humor, and intellect.
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G. K. Chesterton, foi um escritor, poeta, dramaturgo, jornalista, palestrante, biógrafo, e crítico de arte inglês. Chesterton é muitas vezes referido como o "príncipe do paradoxo".Sobre seu estilo, a revista Time comentou: "Sempre que possível Chesterton produz seus pontos com ditos populares, provérbios, alegorias - primeiro, cuidadosamente, virando-os de dentro para fora." Chesterton é bem conhecido por seu personagem de ficção, o sacerdote-detetive Padre Brown, e por sua apologética. Mesmo seus oponentes reconheceram a importância de textos como Ortodoxia ou O Homem Eterno. Um dos principais admiradores de Chesterton foi o escritor argentino Jorge Luís Borges, que viu no inglês um escritor na linha de Franz Kafka e Edgar Allan Poe, reconhecendo, contudo, um estilo que deu a Chesterton sua própria originalidade.