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" I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the
business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass of
common men should settle each other's marriages between them; the
question remains, therefore, whom they do instinctively trust when
they say that this or that ought to be done. What is this flying
and evanescent authority that vanishes wherever we seek to fix it?
Who is the man who is the lost subject that governs the Eugenist's
verb? In a large number of cases I think we can simply say that the
individual Eugenist means himself, and nobody else. "

G.K. Chesterton


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G.K. Chesterton quote : I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the<br />business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass of<br />common men should settle each other's marriages between them; the<br />question remains, therefore, whom they do instinctively trust when<br />they say that this or that ought to be done. What is this flying<br />and evanescent authority that vanishes wherever we seek to fix it?<br />Who is the man who is the lost subject that governs the Eugenist's<br />verb? In a large number of cases I think we can simply say that the<br />individual Eugenist means himself, and nobody else.