Eugenics And The Welfare State

There is nothing new here, nor does there purport to be. What is new, although less and less so now, is the disappearance from Parliament of the explicitly Christian Tory, Liberal and Labour traditions (Catholic or classically Protestant - Liberal Protestants were prominent in eugenics) that used the legacy of Keynes and Beveridge in causes radically different from that of eugenics, whatever Keynes or Beveridge himself may have intended, just as Christianity has redeemed everything from the Old Israel, Hellenism and the Roman Empire onwards.