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Eugenics and Other Evils
Eugenics and Other Evils
[Публицистика]
G. K. Chesterton was an early critic of the philosophy of eugenics, expressing this opinion in his book, Eugenics and Other Evils. Its advocates regarded eugenics as a social philosophy for the
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning
[Биографии и Мемуары]
Chesterton declares that it is fashionable to boast that one cannot understand Browning but he reveals in this fascinating literary biography how Browning ‘combines the greatest brain with the
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Orthodoxy
Orthodoxy
[Религия, эзотерика / Философия / Публицистика]
This book is meant to be a companion to “Heretics,” and to put the positive side in addition to the negative. Many critics complained of the book called “Heretics” because it merely criticised
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The Ballad of the White Horse
The Ballad of the White Horse
[Поэзия: прочее]
The Ballad of the White Horse is one of the last great epic poems in the English language. On the one hand it describes King Alfred’s battle against the Danes in 878. On the other hand it is a
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Heretics
Heretics
[Религиозная литература: прочее / Публицистика / Религия, эзотерика]
G. K. Chesterton, the “Prince of Paradox”, is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on “heretics” — those who pride
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