Guido rightly lambasts the Fabian Society for their erstwhile adoration of the pseudo-science of Eugenics – the corrupt ideology beloved by snooty middle class intellectuals which was a sort of cross-breed of über-Darwinianism with Nietzschean/Germanic ideas of Supremacy.

See also the merciless analysis of this odious ‘progressive’ doctrine and its highbrow supporters in Liberal Fascism.

I mention this because I have downloaded the fab Stanza reading software on to my iPhone. And through it I have been busy piling up lots of free e-books, including various early works by P G Wodehouse (of course) but also essays and novels of G K Chesterton.

The Father Brown detective stories are strangely improbable yet a valiant effort to write clever mysteries with impeccable theological top-spin.

The Queer Feet is a witty one – a crafty robber turns up at a posh club dinner and tries to steal the valuable silverware, tricking the waiters by pretending to be a guest, and tricking the guests by pretending to be a waiter. Father Brown cracks the case by hearing his footsteps as he rushes jerkily from one mode to another. 

Here is an extended 1922 essay by Chesterton demolishing Eugenics once and for all. He seemed to think that the sobering effect of WW1 had ended its influence but of course it lasted in various forms well after that, with H G Wells famously calling for born again enlightened Nazism in a speech at the Oxford Union in 1932.

Anyway, get Stanza and get as many G K Chesterton free e-books as the various free e-book purveyors offer.

Sparkling uncompromising and profound writing, a bracing change from so much of the shifty post-modern ‘theory’ of our own dark times.