G. K. Chesterton’s Fight Against Eugenics
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G. K. Chesterton’s Fight Against Eugenics

G.K. Chesterton was a prolific writer across many genres, including fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism, biography, social criticism, theology, and Christian apologetics. He was also a vocal critic of eugenics.

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