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3678560Eugenics and other evils — indexG. K. Chesterton

INDEX


Abnormal innocence and abnormal sin, alliance between, 4

Abortion, open advocacy of, 138

Affinity as a bar to marriage, 8

Altruism, remarks on, in

Anarchy, definition of, 22, 23

the opposite of Socialism, 159

Anglican Church, the, and question of disestablishment, 75

Aristocratic marriages, Eugenists and, 139 et seq.

Atheistic literary style, the, 46

Authority versus Reason, 132

Autocrats, Eugenists as, 15


Belloc, Mr., and the Servile State, 21, 165

rebuked by The Nation, 122

Blücher, Marshal, an alleged saying of, 124

Bolce, Mr., the super-Eugenist, 180, 181

Bolshevists, and "proletarian art," 169

Brummell, Mr., vanity of, 96

Burglary, punishment for, 36


Calvinism, immorality of, 126, 127

in the Middle Ages, 92

Calvinists and the doctrine of free-will, 52

Capitalists, and workmen, 133

Socialists and, 47

Casuists, Eugenists as, 14

Catholic countries, and the drink traffic, 122

Celtic sadness, and the desolation of Belfast, 121

Chesterton, G. K., and Socialism, 159 et seq.

on H. G. Wells, 69

rebuked by The Nation, 122

Children, and non-eugenic unions, 7

cruelty to: punishment for, 26-7

Christian conception of rebellion, the, 22, 23

Christian religion as protector of the ideal of marriage, 175

Christian serf, how he differed from a pagan slave, 102

Christianity, and freedom, 10

Church teaching, compulsory, 75

Church, the, and question of disestablishment, 75

"Class War, the," and Socialists, 47

Coercion, and control of sex-relationship, 155

Comic songs, and a sermon thereon, 169 et seq.

Compulsion, and sexual selection, 14, 155

Compulsory education, 95

vaccination, 77

Concordat, the, and the independence of the Roman Church, 75

Criminals, difference between lunatics and, 34, 35

proposed vivisection of, 79

punishment of, 25 et seq., 35 et seq.

Criminology as a disease, 167

Cruelty to children, punishment for, 26-7


Delusions, concrete and otherwise, 32 et seq.

Disestablishment, author's views on, 75

Doctors, as health advisers of the community, 55, 58

limits to their knowledge, 57

Education, compulsory, 95

Endeavourers, the, 17

English proletarians, anomalous attitude of, 175

Establishment, author's views on, 75 et seq.

Ethics, as opposed to Eugenics, 7

Eugenic Law, the first, and negative Eugenics, 19, 28

Eugenic State, beginning of the, 19

Eugenics and employment, 141

author's conception of, 12

becomes a fashion, 180

beginning of, 125

different meanings of, 4

essence of, 4

first principle of, 38

general definition of, 10

meanness of the motive of, 136 et seq., 146

moral basis of, 5

the false theory of, 3 et seq.

the real aim of, 91 et seq.

versus Ethics, 7

Eugenist, true story of a, 114 et seq.

Eugenists, and their new morality, 82

as Casuists, 14

as employers, 133, 137

as Euphemists, 12

their plutocratic impulse?, 139 et seq.

Mr. Wells' challenge to, 70

secret of what they really want, 73 et seq., 85

Euphemists, Eugenists as, 12


Fabians, and Socialism, 160

Feeble-Minded Bill, the, Eugenists and, 17, 1 8, 19, 20, 28, 51, 52

Feeble-mindedness, Dr. Saleeby on, 61

hereditary, 62, 63

Flogging, revival of, 25

Foulon, and the French peasants, 103

Freedom, Christianity and, 10

Free-will disbelieved by Eugenists, 52


Game laws, English, result of the, 110, 112

Golf, a Scotch minister's opinion of, 117

Great War, the, outbreak of, and its effect on Eugenics, 181


Health, and what it is, 59

Mr. Wells' views on inheritance of, 70, 85-6

not necessarily allied with beauty, 144

"Health adviser" of society, the, 55, 58

Hereditary diseases, and marriage, 44

Heredity, and feeble-mindedness, 62, 63

author's conception of, 64

incontestable proof of, 66

three first facts of, 66-7

unsatisfactory plight of students of, 66

uselessness of attempting to judge, 39

Housebreaking, punishment for, 36

Household gods of the heathen, 176

Housing problem, the, 164

Hutchinson, Colonel and Mrs., the historic instance of, 7

Huth, A. H., an admission by, 50


Idealists (see Autocrats)

Idiotcy, segregation of, 61

Imperialism, and its aims, 93

Imprisonment, the State and, 25

Incest, the crime of, 8, 9

Indeterminate sentence, the, instrument of, 35

principle of, 37

Individualism, the experiment of, 130

Individualists, early Victorian, 118

Intervention, Socialistic movements of, 166

Irish peasants, T. P. O'Connor on, 144

Irishman in Liverpool, the, 121


Journalism and the Press of to-day, 73


Kindred and affinity, as a bar to marriage, 8


Law, the, and restrictions on sex, 10
and the indeterminate sentence, 35
and the lunatic, 31 et seq.
Libel, definition of, 28
loose extension of idea of, 27-8
Liberty and scepticism, 148
the eclipse of, 149 et seq.
the Eugenist's view of, 16
Lodge, Sir Oliver, and "the stud farm," 13, 14
Lunacy, and Eugenic legislation, 17-20, 28, 29, 31 et seq.
medical specialists as judges of, 40, 41
Lunacy Law, the old, 38
Lunacy Laws, the, extension of principle of, 17
Lunatic, the, and the law, 31 et seq.
Lunatics, difference between criminals and, 34, 35


Macdonald, George, and space co-incident, 34
Madman, a, definition of, 32

Madness, degrees of, 32

medical specialists and, 40, 41

the essence of, 44

(See also Lunacy)

Malthus, and his doctrine, 118

Mania, segregation of, 61

Marriage, and question of hereditary disease, 44

the aim of, 5

the Christian religion and, 175

Marriages, aristocratic, 139 et seq.

Marxian Socialists, and Capitalists, 47

Materialism, as the established church, 77

in speech, 46

Materialists, modern, 128

Medical specialists and madness, 40, 41

Mendicancy laws, result of the, 113

Metternich tradition, the, 154

Midas, 129

Middle Ages, the, 91 et seq.

Midias, segregation of, 29

Monogamy, author's views on, 176

Morality, and restraints on sex, 8


Neisser, Dr., 79

Newspapers, anarchic tendency of modern, 26

decadence of present-day, 73

Niagara, comparison of modern world with, 24

Nietzsche, 182

Non-eugenic unions, and children; 7


O'connor, T. P., on the Irish peasants, 144

Œdipus, and his incestuous marriage, 8

Om, the formless god of the East, 48

On, meaning and use of the word, 48

Osborne, Dorothy, and Sir William Temple, 7


Pagan slave, the, difference between Christian serf and, 102

Pearson, Dr. Karl, 50, 65, 181

Peasant art, comic songs as an instance of, 170

Persecution, author's views on, 77 et seq.

"Platonic friendship," 138

Politics in the Middle Ages, 92

Post Office, the State, 161

twin model of, 162

Precedenters, the, 17

Press, the, criticisms of, 73, 169

Prevention not better than cure, 55

Preventive medicine, fallacy of, 55

Prison system, the, 162

Procreation, prevention of, 138

Profiteering, author on, 124

"Proletarian art," 169

Property, author's views on, 160

Punishment, extension of, 25

Puritanical moral stories, immorality of, 126


Realities, denial of, 33

Reason versus Authority, 132

Rebellion, Christian conception of, 23

meaning of, 22

Reform and Repeal, 95

"Relations of the sexes," atheists and, 47

Religion in the Middle Ages, 92

Representative Government, the procedure of, 116

Rockefeller, Mr., 124

Russian Orthodox Church, the, and the State, 75


Saladin, Sultan, 100

Saleeby, Dr., 50

and a "health-book," 58

and feeble-mindedness, 61

and heredity, 68

Saturnalia, the Roman, 24

Scepticism, reactionary, 148

Science and tyranny, 76

Scotland, Church of, 76

Scotland, drunkenness in, 122

Segregation of strong-minded people, a suggested, 51

Serf, the, different from pagan slave, 102

Servile State, the, Mr. Belloc's theory of, 21, 165

Sex-relationship, controlled by coercion, 155

Sexes, the, relations of, 47

Sexual selection a destruction of Eugenics, 9

Shaw, Bernard, 162

and Sidney Webb, 161

as Puritan, 69

Slaves, breeding of, 10

Slum children, Mrs. Alec Tweedie and, 143

Smiles, Dr. Samuel, and the English tramp, 119

Snobbishness, an inverted, 117

Socialism as oppressor of the poor, 166

Socialism, the transformation of, 159 et seq.

Socialist system, foundation of the, 159

Socialists, and "solidarity," 46

their view of the State, 163

Specialists (medical) and madness, 40, 41

Spiritual pride, an example of, 96

Spiritual world, the, author's belief in, 63

State, the, and compulsion, 14

Socialist view of, 163

Statistics, fundamental fallacy in use of, 61

Steinmetz, Dr. R. S., 8, 181

Stevenson, R. L., and pre-natal conditions, 45


Temperance Reform, 164

Temple, Sir William, and Dorothy Osborne, 7

Tithes, question of, 75

Tory conception of anarchy, the, 22

Tramp, true history of a, 101 et seq.

Truant schools, Socialists and, 167

Tweedie, Mrs. Alec, and the children of the slums, 143

Tyranny of government by Science, 76


Vaccination, compulsory, 77

Vanity, hereditary and other, 62

Victorian Individualists, optimism of, 118

snobbishness, 117


Wages, "rise and fall of," 47

Webb, Sidney, and Bernard Shaw, 161

Wells, H. G., 55, 154

author's criticism of, 69-70

his "Mankind in the Making," 70

White Slave traffic, punishment for, 25

Witchcraft, punishment for, 26

Witch-hunting and witch burning, 63, 64



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