tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post2249531908406438436..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: Eugenics and the Leftelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-64856389270432923572018-01-06T06:01:16.783-05:002018-01-06T06:01:16.783-05:00"The Fabians, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and th...<i>"The Fabians, Sidney and Beatrice Webb and their ilk were not attracted to eugenics because they briefly forgot their leftwing principles. The harder truth is that they were drawn to eugenics for what were then good, leftwing reasons."</i><br /><br />I do know Edith Nesbit was a Fabian.<br /><br />I do not recall she expressed anything like eugenics in her children's books, or the ones I read.<br /><br />Nor have I heard of C. S. Lewis' favourites in her books, The Bastables, being eugenicist in such titles I have not read myself.<br /><br />What is true is, eugenics was applied by leftists of some type in certain states of US and Canada, perhaps also already elsewhere, when it was condemned by Pope Pius XI - a condemnation I completely stand by.<br /><br />There are people - for instance in France - who will condemn my writings by this figure of "guilt by association" :<br /><br />Eugenics was promoted by Webbs who were Fabians, but Edith Nesbith was Fabian, C. S. Lewis (and I) read Edith Nesbit with relish, I read C. S. Lewis with relish, ergo, I am an eugenics promoting Fabian.<br /><br />Of course, I could have taken a certain disinfectant (moral such) offered : declare I will have nothing to do with any economic proposal by the Fabians - including E. Nesbit's preference for pre-Industrial over Indutrialised and Capitalistic economy.<br /><br />That nearly explicitly (or very transparently implicitly) offered disinfectant I have not taken.Hans Georg Lundahlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01055583255516264955noreply@blogger.com