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Eugenics - Thank you!

Eugenics and Other Evils - March 11, 2011 02:41 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Thank you for listening to Eugenics.  You might also want to listen to my other book projects here on Podiobooks.com.    

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Eugenics Episode 16

Eugenics and Other Evils - March 04, 2011 00:30 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2, Chapter 8 -- The End of the Household Gods: "The only place where it is possible to find an echo of the mind of the English masses is either in conversation or in comic songs. The latter are obviously the more dubious; but they are the only things recorded and quotable that come anywher...

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Eugenics Episode 15

Eugenics and Other Evils - February 25, 2011 08:21 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2, Chapter 7 -- The Transformation of Socialism: "Socialism is one of the simplest ideas in the world. It has always puzzled me how there came to be so much bewilderment and misunderstanding and miserable mutual slander about it. At one time I agreed with Socialism, because it was simple. ...

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Eugenics Episode 14

Eugenics and Other Evils - February 17, 2011 02:12 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2, Chapter 6 -- The Eclipse of Liberty: "If such a thing as the Eugenic sociology had been suggested in the period from Fox to Gladstone, it would have been far more fiercely repudiated by the reformers than by the Conservatives."

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Eugenics Episode 13

Eugenics and Other Evils - February 10, 2011 17:20 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2, Chapter 5 --The Meanness of the Motive: "Now, if any ask whether it be imaginable that an ordinary man of the wealthier type should analyse the problem or conceive the plan, the inhumanly far-seeing plan, as I have set it forth, the answer is: "Certainly not." Many rich employers are to...

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Eugenics Episode 12

Eugenics and Other Evils - February 03, 2011 06:11 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2, Chapter 4 -- The Vengeance of the Flesh: "By a quaint paradox, we generally miss the meaning of simple stories because we are not subtle enough to understand their simplicity."

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Eugenics Episode 11

Eugenics and Other Evils - January 27, 2011 23:31 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2, Chapter 3 -- True History of a Eugenist: "He does not live in a dark lonely tower by the sea, from which are heard the screams of vivisected men and women. On the contrary, he lives in Mayfair."

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Eugenics Episode 10

Eugenics and Other Evils - January 25, 2011 00:05 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2, Chapter 2 -- True History of a Tramp: "He awoke in the Dark Ages and smelt dawn in the dark, and knew he was not wholly a slave."

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Eugenics Episode 9

Eugenics and Other Evils - January 17, 2011 16:26 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 2 -- The Real Aim Chapter 1 -- The Impotence of Impenitence "The root formula of an epoch is always an unwritten law, just as the law that is the first of all laws, that which protects life from the murderer, is written nowhere in the Statute Book."

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Eugenics Episode 8

Eugenics and Other Evils - January 06, 2011 16:41 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 1, Chapter 8 -- A Summary of a False Theory: "I have up to this point treated the Eugenists, I hope, as seriously as they treat themselves. I have attempted an analysis of their theory as if it were an utterly abstract and disinterested theory; and so considered, there seems to be very lit...

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Eugenics Episode 7

Eugenics and Other Evils - December 09, 2010 20:28 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 1, Chapter 7 -- The Established Church of Doubt: "Let us now finally consider what the honest Eugenists do mean, since it has become increasingly evident that they cannot mean what they say."  

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Eugenics Episode 6

Eugenics and Other Evils - October 27, 2010 19:53 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 1, Chapter 6 -- The Unanswered Challenge: "Dr. Saleeby did me the honour of referring to me in one of his addresses on this subject, and said that even I cannot produce any but a feeble-minded child from a feeble-minded ancestry. To which I reply, first of all, that he cannot produce a fee...

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Eugenics Episode 5

Eugenics and Other Evils - September 25, 2010 06:58 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 1, Chapter 5 - The Flying Authority: "It happened one day that an atheist and a man were standing together on a doorstep; and the atheist said, "It is raining." To which the man replied, "What is raining?": which question was the beginning of a violent quarrel and a lasting friendship."

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Eugenics Episode 4

Eugenics and Other Evils - September 25, 2010 06:50 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 1, Chapter 4 -- The Lunatic and the Law: "The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill...

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Eugenics Episode 3

Eugenics and Other Evils - September 25, 2010 06:43 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 1 Chapter 3 -- The Anarchy from Above: "A silent anarchy is eating out our society. I must pause upon the expression; because the true nature of anarchy is mostly misapprehended."

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Eugenics Episode 2

Eugenics and Other Evils - September 25, 2010 06:35 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Part 1 Chapter 2 -- The First Obstacles: "Now before I set about arguing these things, there is a cloud of skirmishers, of harmless and confused modern sceptics, who ought to be cleared off or calmed down before we come to debate with the real doctors of the heresy."

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Eugenics Episode 1

Eugenics and Other Evils - September 25, 2010 06:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratings
Narrator's Introduction To the Reader Part 1 -- The False Theory Chapter One: "The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt."  

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Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPod/iPhone - November 04, 2009 03:36 - 1 minute ★★★★ - 1 rating
A brief introduction to this album.

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Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPad/Mac/PC - November 04, 2009 03:36 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 1 rating
A brief introduction to this album.

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Transcript -- Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPod/iPhone - November 04, 2009 03:36 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 1 rating
Transcript -- A brief introduction to this album.

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Transcript -- Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPad/Mac/PC - November 04, 2009 03:36 - application/pdf ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Transcript -- A brief introduction to this album.

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Darwin's great great granddaughter

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPod/iPhone - November 04, 2009 03:35 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 1 rating
The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry.

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Darwin's great great granddaughter

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPad/Mac/PC - November 04, 2009 03:35 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry.

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Transcript -- Darwin's great great granddaughter

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPod/iPhone - November 04, 2009 03:35 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 1 rating
Transcript -- The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry.

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Transcript -- Darwin's great great granddaughter

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPad/Mac/PC - November 04, 2009 03:35 - application/pdf ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Transcript -- The poet Ruth Padel talks about her great great grandfather, Charles Darwin, and how she has responded to his life and work in her poetry.

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Darwin's childhood

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPod/iPhone - November 04, 2009 03:34 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 1 rating
Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser".

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Darwin's childhood

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPad/Mac/PC - November 04, 2009 03:34 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser".

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Transcript -- Darwin's childhood

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPod/iPhone - November 04, 2009 03:34 - application/pdf ★★★★ - 1 rating
Transcript -- Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser".

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Transcript -- Darwin's childhood

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPad/Mac/PC - November 04, 2009 03:34 - application/pdf ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Transcript -- Ruth Padel and Sheila Ochugboju reflect on Darwin's childhood, and Ruth reads her poems "The Chapel School", The year my mother died", "The miser".

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Darwin's marriage

Charles Darwin - the man and the scientist - for iPad/Mac/PC - November 04, 2009 03:33 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Ruth Padel discusses the relationship between Darwin and his wife Emma and how her religiosity sometimes conflicted with his scientific beliefs.She reads her poems "The Open Window", "He Leaves a Message on the Edge" and "`He ignores his father's advice".