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I am not a Catholic, nor adherent to any dogma, but have always admired Percy’s literary illustrations tied to his conversion. The quoted Q&A in
this article, in which – aligned with Chesterton – Percy points out the limitations of so-called scientific humanism, reminds me that Chesterton was a fierce opponent of eugenics, which was then a popular idea in many western nations (and remained as such
under Naziism). The following is source-cited in the Wikipedia article on Chesterton: [Chesterton] derided such ideas as founded on nonsense, "as if one had a right to dragoon and enslave one's fellow citizens as a kind of chemical
experiment".[79 ]Chesterton
mocked the idea that poverty was a result of bad breeding: “... The poor are not a race or even a type. It is senseless to talk about breeding them; for they are not a breed. They are, in cold fact, what Dickens describes: 'a dustbin of individual accidents,'
of damaged dignity, and often of damaged gentility." Karl Terrell From:
Percy-L <percy-l-bounces+kterrell=stokeswagner.com AT lists.ibiblio.org> on behalf of Steve Petrica <steve.petrica AT gmail.com> I'm attaching a brief essay -- "Found in the Cosmos" -- about Percy and GK Chesterton, from the current issue of
Gilbert, the magazine of the American Chesterton Society. I hope you enjoy it! Steve Petrica This email has been scanned for spam and viruses by Proofpoint Essentials. Click
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