Eugenics and Other Evils

Part 2, Chapter 8 -- The End of the Household Gods:"The only place where it is possible to find an echo of the mind of the English masses is either in conversation or in comic songs. The latter are obviously the more dubious; but they are the

Eugenics Episode 15

Feb 25th, 2011 19m

Part 2, Chapter 7 -- The Transformation of Socialism:"Socialism is one of the simplest ideas in the world. It has always puzzled me how there came to be so much bewilderment and misunderstanding and miserable mutual slander about it. At one ti

Eugenics Episode 14

Feb 17th, 2011 20m 56s

Part 2, Chapter 6 -- The Eclipse of Liberty:"If such a thing as the Eugenic sociology had been suggested in the period from Fox to Gladstone, it would have been far more fiercely repudiated by the reformers than by the Conservatives."

Eugenics Episode 13

Feb 10th, 2011 24m 25s

Part 2, Chapter 5 --The Meanness of the Motive:"Now, if any ask whether it be imaginable that an ordinary man of the wealthier type should analyse the problem or conceive the plan, the inhumanly far-seeing plan, as I have set it forth, the ans

Eugenics Episode 12

Feb 3rd, 2011 18m 18s

Part 2, Chapter 4 -- The Vengeance of the Flesh:"By a quaint paradox, we generally miss the meaning of simple stories because we are not subtle enough to understand their simplicity."

Eugenics Episode 11

Jan 27th, 2011 24m 10s

Part 2, Chapter 3 -- True History of a Eugenist:"He does not live in a dark lonely tower by the sea, from which are heard the screams of vivisected men and women. On the contrary, he lives in Mayfair."

Eugenics Episode 10

Jan 25th, 2011 25m 40s

Part 2, Chapter 2 -- True History of a Tramp:"He awoke in the Dark Ages and smelt dawn in the dark, and knew he was not wholly a slave."

Eugenics Episode 9

Jan 17th, 2011 20m 20s

Part 2 -- The Real AimChapter 1 -- The Impotence of Impenitence"The root formula of an epoch is always an unwritten law, just as the law that is the first of all laws, that which protects life from the murderer, is written nowhere in the Stat

Eugenics Episode 8

Jan 6th, 2011 12m 42s

Part 1, Chapter 8 -- A Summary of a False Theory:"I have up to this point treated the Eugenists, I hope, as seriously as they treat themselves. I have attempted an analysis of their theory as if it were an utterly abstract and disinterested th

Eugenics Episode 7

Dec 9th, 2010 18m 53s

Part 1, Chapter 7 -- The Established Church of Doubt:"Let us now finally consider what the honest Eugenists do mean, since it has become increasingly evident that they cannot mean what they say."

Eugenics Episode 6

Oct 27th, 2010 22m 44s

Part 1, Chapter 6 -- The Unanswered Challenge:"Dr. Saleeby did me the honour of referring to me in one of his addresses on this subject, and said that even I cannot produce any but a feeble-minded child from a feeble-minded ancestry. To which

Eugenics Episode 5

Sep 25th, 2010 28m 39s

Part 1, Chapter 5 - The Flying Authority:"It happened one day that an atheist and a man were standing together on a doorstep; and the atheist said, "It is raining." To which the man replied, "What is raining?": which question was the beginning

Eugenics Episode 4

Sep 25th, 2010 28m 45s

Part 1, Chapter 4 -- The Lunatic and the Law:"The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be r

Eugenics Episode 3

Sep 25th, 2010 18m 8s

Part 1 Chapter 3 -- The Anarchy from Above:"A silent anarchy is eating out our society. I must pause upon the expression; because the true nature of anarchy is mostly misapprehended."

Eugenics Episode 2

Sep 25th, 2010 19m 44s

Part 1 Chapter 2 -- The First Obstacles:"Now before I set about arguing these things, there is a cloud of skirmishers, of harmless and confused modern sceptics, who ought to be cleared off or calmed down before we come to debate with the real

Eugenics Episode 1

Sep 25th, 2010 22m 32s

Narrator's IntroductionTo the ReaderPart 1 -- The False TheoryChapter One:"The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt."

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