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During the first three years of the 20th hundred years, eugenics, the technological control of individuals breeding, was a favorite cause within enlightened and progressive segments of the English-speaking world. The New York Times eagerly supported it, gushing about the wonderful "new knowledge." Prominent experts, including the seed biologist Luther Burbank, were among its most enthusiastic followers. And the Carnegie and Rockefeller foundations generously funded eugenic research intended to differentiate the "fit" from the "unfit." This prophetic quantity counters the intellectual nihilism of Nietzsche, while concurrently rebuking Western notions of improvement - biological or elsewhere. Chesterton expands his criticism of eugenics into what he message or calls "a more general criticism of the modern craze for technological officialism and rigorous social corporation."
