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A review by tony
Eugenics and Other Evils by G.K. Chesterton
3.0
★★★★ for Part 1, as much for the delightfully clear, incisive, and at times hilarious, style of laying out his case, as for the argument itself. There are many delightful little nuggets that still resonate, but also a few too many places where something he mocks as being beyond all reason has since come not only to be accepted, but to have completely extinguished every other way of thinking.
Only ★★, though for Part 2, which is effectively a second book (the Chapter numbers even reset to 1). It reads as if Chesterton had a bunch of other loosely connected unfinished essays lying around, and decided to quite crudely edit them together with a throwaway “…and the implications for Eugenics are clear” tagged onto the end. There are still some excellent parts, but in general this section was much more disappointing.
Only ★★, though for Part 2, which is effectively a second book (the Chapter numbers even reset to 1). It reads as if Chesterton had a bunch of other loosely connected unfinished essays lying around, and decided to quite crudely edit them together with a throwaway “…and the implications for Eugenics are clear” tagged onto the end. There are still some excellent parts, but in general this section was much more disappointing.