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When the concept of eugenics — the practice of selecting for desirable traits in the larger population by encouraging gifted and/or attractive people to breed — began to take hold in the early twentieth century, British thinker and writer G.K. Chesterton took a stance contrary to that of many intellectuals of the period and denounced it as evil in this bold, engaging series of essays.

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Sprache Englisch ● Format PDF ● Seiten 134 ● ISBN 9781776588107 ● Verlag The Floating Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2015 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 4275519 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM

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