Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of translating the one into the other, however obviously they mean the same thing. Say to them "The persuasive and even coercive powers of the citizen should enable him to make sure that the burden of longevity in the previous generation does not become disproportionate and intolerable, especially to the females"; say this to them and they will sway slightly to and fro like babies sent to sleep in cradles. Say to them "Murder your mother," and they sit up quite suddenly. Yet the two sentences, in cold logic, are exactly the same. (Summary by Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
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Benny & Chesterton Morning Show Podcast - Casablanca - Algiers - Jack's Africa Trip - Chesterton's Manalive
A Tiny Drop of Poison - CBS Radio Mystery Theater
A Man to Remember - Small Town Doctor Working Under Difficult Circumstances - All-Star Radio Dramas of Classic Films - Bob Burns and Anita Louise - Lux Radio Theater
Pygmalion - Starring Jean Arthur & Brian Aherne - All-Star Radio Dramas of Classic Films - Lux Radio Theater
Benny and Chesterton Morning Show Podcast - Jack Listens to the World Series - What I Saw in America - Jack Dreams He is Married to Mary - Maxwell is Stolen
The Catholic Hour - Fulton Sheen - The Crucifixion - Crisis in Christendom - War and Revolution
The House I Live In - Frank Sinatra - RKO Picture Preview - Sinatra on the Radio Podcast
Yankee Doodle Dandy - James Cagney as George M. Cohan - All-Star Cast - Screen Guild Theater
What I Saw in America - G.K. Chesterton - What is America - Meditation in a New York Hotel - Meditation in Broadway
Red Skelton For Avalon Time - 4th Of July Picnic
The Four Freedoms - Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Speech 1941 - Speech - Worship - Want - Fear
The Classical Gilbert Podcast - The 1812 Overture - Tchaikovsky
Family Comedy Podcast - The Great Gildersleeve - The Jolly Boys Fourth of July Picnic
Classical Gilbert Podcast - Antonin Dvorak - From the New World - Sympnony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95
A Veteran Comes Home - Home for the Fourth - Columbia Workshop - Fourth of July
Family Comedy Podcast - Great Gildersleeve - Togetherness - Gildy Wants Family Time for the Fourth but Nephew Leroy Has Other Plans
Chase & Sanborn Hour - Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy - Fourth Of July 1937 - Zazu Pitts - W.C. Fields - Dorothy Lamour - Hoagy Carmichael - Robert Armbruster - Don Ameche
Stars and Stripes Forever - Philco Summer Hour - July Fourth 1944
Father Knows Best - Fourth of July - The Meaning of Freedoms
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