Stories from the Hiber-Nation: Recent Episodes
David Grizzly Smith
Stories and poetry read by Grizzly Smith, from the Public Domain or read by permission of the author
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Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Tschaikovski Opus 40" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Show Theme: "Canon in D" from Owen Poteat. Book Theme: "Friendly Day" from Kevin MacLeod
Federalist # 3 - The Same Subject Continued: Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence
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Federalist # 2 - Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence
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The same subject continued... continued.
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Back in the saddle, with a few saddle sores. And a bit of news. And then, The Same Subject Continued.
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Everybody agreed the Articles of Confederacy weren't working. Not everyone agreed how much needed to be changed.
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Hello, welcome back for Federalist # 14, "Objections to the Proposed Constitution From Extent of Territory Answered."
You know, I do love reading these older works aloud for you. I like to think it adds a living energy to words to which you and I have paid far too little attention for far too long. I've mentioned that I don't read ahead very much, to keep the material fresh for me. I like suprises as much as you folks do. Much of the Federalist papers are rather calm, rather clerical, rather tame. The first part of this essay is much the same. But towards the end, there's quite a crescendo, lemme tell ya.
This one purports to be written by James Madison, though the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society argues that most or all were written by Hamilton. That's possible. But it seems to me the more firey essays do seem to be attributed to Madison. So it's an intriguing question. And it's nice to find an intriguing question about something written 230 years ago. Hope I do it justice.
Good day!
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Hello, we meet again, this time for Federalist # 13, "Advantage of the Union in Respect to Economy in Government."
Once again, the Federalist's primary argument for the Constitution is that it is the only way to preserve the Union, all the states working together. That argument is assumed throughout this essay. And once again, the Federalist gives us an answer to a question raised in our current era.
Hamilton contends that there are functions that must be carried out by the national government, whether that nation be one state, one of three or more confederacies, or a nation comprised of all the thirteen states. With that in mind, a single government would be most economical, without duplicating necessary national functions three times, or thirteen times.
Modern politicians often argue that the Federal government is too expensive and inefficient. I'd counter that people governing themselves is expensive and inefficient, and worth preserving. The alternative offered is not some better Federal government. It is a Federal government that doesn't actually perform the necessary work. When one completes half the work, or none of the work, one can sure save a lot of money. Monarchy or tyranny is relatively cheap, and can look a lot more efficient, what with the trains running on time, and all those parades of marching uniforms.
But I digress. Let's let Mr Hamilton speak for himself. Good day!
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Hello again. Tonight is Federalist # 12, which is all about Revenue. Or in other words, tax collecting.
Naturally this one is written by Alexander Hamilton, the banker. He founded the Bank of New York. Later on, President George Washington appointed him as the first Secretary of the Treasury, and in that capacity he also founded the first Bank of the United States. So he would be the one to write an essay to convince the people of New York that the Constitution would be a great idea, because the government would be better at collecting taxes. I admit I got a bit of a chuckle out of that. Can't picture a modern legislator promoting anything with the idea it'd let the Federal government collect more taxes. Anyway, I found it a bit amusing. Then again, I also get many of the dirty jokes in Shakespeare.
The modern debates on reforming the tax code, basically started with the work of Alexander Hamilton.
But he does make some valid points. No government can do much without revenue, no one can, really. If it's got to be done, and it does, it ought to be done well. And he does say that most of that revenue would come from duties on imports, and not from landowners and especially not from farmers, who generally don't have much cash anyway. That had to go over rather well in a largely agrarian society.
This is a short one, but has value of it's own. Good day.
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Hello again. Tonight I'm recording Federalist #11. This is not the most exciting essay to the modern ear, being primarily about international trade, especially by sea. The ending does get a bit firey.
I am not a trained historian, just a history fan, I suppose. In 1787 America didn't have much of a navy to speak of. And British naval power, or French for that matter, was much stronger. The only advantage we had was the very long way they had to travel to do much of anything to us, and the ongoing conflicts between Britain and France, which made conflict with us an inconvenient side issue in many ways. I find the coverage of American Naval potential interesting in the very different resources necessary for naval building in those days: tar, pitch, turpentine and the strong wood available from the southern states, oh, and some of the iron from the north, too.
The essay also mentions hypothetically cutting off direct trade with Britain, and how it might put us in a strong position negotiating a trade treaty with them. Twenty-five years later we were at war once again with Britain, after cutting off trade, in part due to trusting France, in part due to our still lacking a strong enough navy to keep Britain from kidnapping our merchant seamen and impressing them into the British navy. We won again, largely due to the internal lines of supply also discussed here, which same have also been the foundation of every war we've won, in my amateur opinion. We didn't always build the best of anything, but we sure built a lot of 'em in a hurry.
The most strongly worded part of this essay is at the end, suggesting a European opinion that America weakened anyone who went there. I wasn't around at the time, so I'll take Hamilton's word on that. We were still desperately vulnerable, and building a strong navy was probably a very good idea. But I believe what saved us was largely the French conflict with Britain, and our willingness to persist in fighting long enough that Britain couldn't sustain a war against us. And finally, it was the commercial side, internal and external trade, that allowed us to become a strong, viable nation.
And the Union, providing a framework for our internal cooperation, was essential to our later external strength.
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Hello again and welcome to Federalist #10. You may remember I mentioned I'd be recording this the same night as #9.
I was startled to notice that #9, "The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection" was written by Hamilton, and was rather intellectual. But #10, "The Same Subject Continued" came from James Madison, who seems so staid in the pictures, but who's a bit of a firebrand in this essay.
There's a lot to love about this one. Once again the author wrote a couple of centuries back, but seems to have watched TV last night. While I'm sure there was a temptation to high-flown rhetoric, Madison was cold-bloodedly pragmatic about the vulnerabilities of the Republic. He knew it wouldn't be perfect, but he knew it could be protected and made better.
I also noted Madison's reference to "the most numerous party, or, in other words, the most powerful faction," which reminded me of John Stuart Mill's mention in On Liberty, Chapter One, of "the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority," more than a century later. Madison shows a realistic view of government one might not expect from the Federalist, if one approaches it as some sort of religious work, rather than what it is, a political work intended to convey rationally how one might form a durable republic, and to convince the citizens that this new Constitution would accomplish that.
It has been pointed out elsewhere that the founders assumed the citizens, if provided with the facts, would make intelligent choices. I'd expect that to be necessary in the foundation of any Republic. If the citizens aren't equipped to choose correctly, then you either equip them, or you choose a different form of government. But I think this essay makes clear that the founders understood the people could also make incredibly bad choices. The hope was that there'd be enough people making enough choices that it'd all come out fairly well even so.
I hope so, too.
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Tonight I'm recording Federalist number 9. I'm sorry that I'm way behind the weekly recordings I originally planned. It was such a lovely plan, wasn't it? I'm going to try to record two tonight, so I can get caught back up.
I feel like there ought to be three aspects of this essay for me to comment about, but I can only think of two. First I note that Hamilton describes generally the best and worst of the ancient Greek and Roman republics. These descriptions feel all too well fitted around our own necks. Listen for yourself, tell me I'm wrong, because I'd like to be.
Secondly I note that Hamilton defends the new Constitution by pointing out new innovations in republican government that should prevent the worst excesses of past republics. He's quite right, they should. But these new ideas aren't magical incantations, inscriptions and annointings that will frighten off all possible future demons. These are practices and processes, habits and jobs. And these jobs must be done every day by those we've hired to do them, or there are no protections, there are no checks and there is no balance.
And now I see that third thing I figured must be there ... because there are always three things, ask anyone who's written a speech or an essay.
Hamilton's republic demands that we are lead by our best and brightest, who we choose from among ourselves. If our best aren't all that good, and our brightest not always very bright, we elect enough of them that they will improve their results by working together. If we trust a few who are not worthy of trust, the rest will demand better behavior of them, and check their worst abuses. But if we fail, if we choose representatives who will not act in the public interest, or who will not act at all unless marching obediently behind the fools they follow, there is no magical incantation in the Constitution that can save us.
No magic but time. If we and our Republic survive, perhaps we will have a chance to choose better next time.
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Some dangers we avoided early, but encountered later.
And what I didn't know, but didn't want to spoil the surprise.
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Reference to a shared YouTube clip from "The Newsroom" which is sadly on-point for this episode, and which you can see on my Podbusker.com blog.
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We fight amongst ourselves, but we're still family even so.
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Though these essays seem to be separate pieces, they are also organized to work together as a cohesive piece. Also, as with other old works I've recorded, there are lessons here that apply well to our modern circumstances. Every day we see "Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence," don't we?
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Everything new is old again.
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Upon further review ... one essay per podcast, for the moment.
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A possible change in format. But not this time.
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My first effort on the Federalist Papers. One of those learning experiences you've heard about.
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Chapter 34 - Tubby
Chapter 35 - The Military Ball and St. Patrick's Day Parade
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Chapter 32 - Making Bread
Chapter 33 - Z's Childhood
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Chapter 28 - Andy's Bar
Chapter 29 - Jake and Spinnaker
Chapter 30 - New Careers
Chapter 31 - Seeing Eye Sergeant
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Chapter 26 - Winging It
Chapter 27 - Swimming for Dollars
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Chapter 24 - Stork Stories
Chapter 25 - Drinkin' Buddies
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Chapter 22 - Family Matters
Chapter 23 - Jack
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Chapter 20 - Chase Scene
Chapter 21 - Australia
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Chapter 18 - Foreign Women
Chapter 19 - Bremerton
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Chapter 16 - Deep Sink
Chapter 17 - Mr. Johnson
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Chapter 13 - Going to Sea
Chapter 14 - Attack on Pearl Harbor
Chapter 15 - Brig
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Chapter 11 - Boot Camp
Chapter 12 - Freedom
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Chapter 9 - Wise Guys
Chapter 10 - Devil or the Deep Blue Sea
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Chapter 7 - Three Hoods and Roxie
Chapter 8 - Linda and the Genius
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Chapter 5 - The Bike
Chapter 6 - Schilla's Bakery
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Chapter 3 - Confessions of a Sinner
Chapter 4 - Timmy Tyler
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Preface
Chapter 1 - New Year's Eve at the 402
Chapter 2 - A Hot Time in the West End
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"A Defence of Patriotism" the last chapter of The Defendant. Hope you enjoyed it!
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"A Defence of Detective Stories"
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"In Defence of Baby Worship"
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"A Defence of Slang"
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"A Defence of Humility"
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"A Defence of Farce"
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"A Defence of Ugly Things"
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"A Defence of Heraldry"
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"A Defence of Useful Information"
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"A Defence of China Shepherdesses"
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"A Defence of Planets"
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"A Defence of Nonsense"
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"A Defence of Publicity"
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"A Defence of Skeletons"
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"A Defence of Rash Vows"
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"A Defence of Penny Dreadfuls"
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"In Defence of a New Edition" and "Introduction"
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The nice folks who were allowing me to produce a serialized audio version of "Swinging Doors," changed their minds. They're concerned that it interferes with their copyright. I grant you that offering a free audio version to promote the print & Kindle versions is a hard concept to get your head around for many people, though it has been known to work rather well.
But it's their book, their copyright. So every episode of Hiber-Nation from Episode 128 forward has been taken down. If you want to read the book, the paper version is available from SwingingDoorsBook.com, and the Kindle version is available on Amazon. It's still worth reading, the ending is exciting.
It'll be a while till I come up with another book to record. Thanks for listening, while it lasted.
Griz
CHAPTER V. APPLICATIONS. "The principles asserted in these pages must be more generally admitted as the basis for discussion of details, before a consistent application of them to all the various departments of government and morals can be attempted with any prospect of advantage. The few observations I propose to make on questions of detail, are designed to illustrate the principles, rather than to follow them out to their consequences."
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CHAPTER IV. OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.
"What, then, is the rightful limit to the sovereignty of the individual over himself? Where does the authority of society begin? How much of human life should be assigned to individuality, and how much to society?"
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Chapter 3 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 2 of 2
"Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be? or what worse can be said of any obstruction to good, than that it prevents this?"
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Chapter 3 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 1 of 2
"Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should be free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve; and such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that to the moral nature of man, unless this liberty is either conceded, or asserted in spite of prohibition; let us next examine whether the same reasons do not require that men should be free to act upon their opinions—to carry these out in their lives, without hindrance, either physical or moral, from their fellow-men, so long as it is at their own risk and peril."
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Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 4 of 4
"In politics, again, it is almost a commonplace, that a party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life; until the one or the other shall have so enlarged its mental grasp as to be a party equally of order and of progress, knowing and distinguishing what is fit to be preserved from what ought to be swept away."
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Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 3
"To abate the force of these considerations, an enemy of free discussion may be supposed to say, that there is no necessity for mankind in general to know and understand all that can be said against or for their opinions by philosophers and theologians. That it is not needful for common men to be able to expose all the misstatements or fallacies of an ingenious opponent."
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Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 2
"Aware of the impossibility of defending the use of punishment for restraining irreligious opinions, by any argument which will not justify Marcus Antoninus, the enemies of religious freedom, when hard pressed, occasionally accept this consequence, and say, with Dr. Johnson, that the persecutors of Christianity were in the right ..."
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Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 1
"... Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. "
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Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTORY
"The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual."
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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 anywhere near it."
Chapter 9 -- A Short Chapter:
"Round about the year 1913 Eugenics was turned from a fad to a fashion. Then, if I may so summarise the situation, the joke began in earnest. The organising mind which we have seen considering the problem of slum population, the popular material and the possibility of protests, felt that the time had come to open the campaign. ... But as a matter of fact this is not the first chapter but the last. And this must be a very short chapter, because the whole of this story was cut short. A very curious thing happened. England went to war. This would in itself have been a sufficiently irritating interruption in the early life of Eugenette, and in the early establishment of Eugenics. But a far more dreadful and disconcerting fact must be noted. With whom, alas, did England go to war? England went to war with the Superman in his native home."
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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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. Now I disagree with Socialism, because it is too simple."
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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 too generous to do such a thing; many are too stupid to know what they are doing."
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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 little left of it."
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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 feeble-minded child. The whole point of our contention is that this phrase conveys nothing fixed and outside opinion."
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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 a man."
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"Eugenics and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
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 and Other Evils," by G.K. Chesterton, published in 1922.
Narrator's Introduction:
For the next few paragraphs I will speak for myself, to set the stage for G.K. Chesterton's book, and to suggest why I believe it is still an important book.
I think G.K. Chesterton explains his book rather well in his introduction, but it might help to start with a sense of the time in question. Chesterton started work on Eugenics and Other Evils in about 1910, but it was not completed and published until 1922. In his own introduction he talks about the period before and after "The War." The war he refers to is now called World War One.
We now have a distaste for the word Eugenics, largely driven by events in World War Two. But at the time this book was published, Eugenics was lauded to the skies as a wonderful idea, and Chesterton was nearly the only person saying in writing that Eugenics was in fact evil. A case could be made, and has been made, that today, though the word Eugenics is avoided, some practices that are in fact Eugenic practices, and some sciences that are in fact Eugenic sciences, enjoy great popularity and engender great public enthusiasm. To which practices and which sciences I refer, is left as an exercise for the reader.
To the Reader:
"...It was a time when this theme was the topic of the hour; when eugenic babies (not visibly very distinguishable from other babies) sprawled all over the illustrated papers; when the evolutionary fancy of Nietzsche was the new cry among the intellectuals; and when Mr. Bernard Shaw and others were considering the idea that to breed a man like a cart-horse was the true way to attain that higher civilisation, of intellectual magnanimity and sympathetic insight, which may be found in cart-horses...."
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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After a certain amount of begging and whining, Terry Fallis, author of the political satire "The Best Laid Plans" (winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humor) that I reviewed a long while back, gave me permission to share the first chapter of his new sequel, "The High Road," here in the Hiber-Nation.
If you've missed it, now you don't have an excuse. :)
The remainder of the book is being made available over at Terry's website. Enjoy!
Griz
Chapter 9, "Authority and the Adventurer" (the last chapter)
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 8, "The Romance of Orthodoxy"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 7, "The Eternal Revolution"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 6, "The Paradoxes of Christianity"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 5, "The Flag of the World"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 4, "The Ethics of Elfland"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 3, "The Suicide of Thought"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 2, "The Maniac"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Chapter 1, "Introduction in Defence of Everything Else"
"Orthodoxy," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton, and a Sequel to "Heretics."
Book Theme: "The Rule," by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 19, "Concluding Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 19, "Slum Novelists and the Slums"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 18, "The Fallacy of the Young Nation"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 17, "On the Wit of Whistler"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 16, "On Mr. McCabe and a Divine Frivolity"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 15, "On Smart Novelists and the Smart Set"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 14, "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 13, "Celts and Celtophiles"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 12, "Paganism and Mr Lowes Dickinson"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 11, "Science and the Savages"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 9, "The Moods of Mr. George Moore"
Part 10, "On Sandals and Simplicity"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Part 8, "The Mildness of the Yellow Press"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
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Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat
Wanted to make sure you check out my just-completed Promo for my reading of "Heretics," by GK Chesterton, on Podiobooks.com.
Of course, Heretics has already been appearing here. But I think I chose rather well as to what brief excerpt effectively conveys the overall message of "Heretics." Didn't do anything terribly imaginative with it.
But Promos are good.
Thanks!
Griz
Part 7, "Omar and the Sacred Vine"
"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
Book Theme: "Thaxted," written by Gustav Holst, arranged by Kevin MacLeod
Series Theme: Pachelbel's "Canon in D," performed by Owen Poteat