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Excerpt: An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw.

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...An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Unsocial Socia... ...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...lication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ld-fashioned schoolmistress who did not believe in Miss Wilson’s system of government by moral force, and carried it out under protest. Though not ill... ...ctaves, and subsiding again. It was a true fe- line screech, impossible to localize; but it was interrupted by 17 GB Shaw a sob, a snarl, a fierce sp... ...n of nature, shared only by her favorite poets and he- roes of romance and history. Hence she was in the common youthful case of being a much better j... .... As if a benevolent despot might not by any error of judgment destroy his kingdom, and then say, like Romeo when he got his friend killed, ‘I thought... ..., for instance. That one is France; that, British India. Here you have the United States of America, home of liberty, the- atre of manhood suffrage, k...

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...Excerpt: This little play is really a religious tract in dramatic form. If our silly censorship would permit its performance, it might possibly help to set right-side-up the perverted conscience and re-invigorate the starved self-respect of our considerable class of loose-lived ...

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...THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of... ...y GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of ... ...D SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...n commercial civi- lization that it is no longer difficult to convince our governments that something must be done, even to the extent of attempts at ... ..., is out of fashion; and we are in that other phase, famil- iarized by the history of the French Revolution, in which the primary assumption is that t... ...ely determined to resist any extension of the authority of teetotaller-led local governing bodies over theatres. Fifth, there were the playwrights, wi... ... must be of the duty of reading through every play that is produced in the kingdom year in, year out. WHY THE LORD CHAMBERLAIN? What may be called the... ...ess and speech are those of pioneers of civilisation in a territory of the United States of America, are seated round the table and on the benches, sh...

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...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

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...Cashel Byron’s Profession By George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cashel Byron’s Pr... ...ication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...tion Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...nd more attracted by it as she proceeded. For, thanks to her eminence as a local beauty, she had not that fear of beautiful and rich things which rend... ...holidays last. Excuse my keeping you waiting at the door to hear that long history. Adieu!” She waved her hand; Alice suddenly felt that it was possib... ...the opposition had given notice was tantamount to a vote of censure on the government. He was confident that ministers would have a majority. He had n... ...storical event of a common kind. England, a few years before, had stolen a kingdom from a considerable people in Africa, and seized the person of its ... ...e talking—now for a screech, Miss Carew!—to the champion of Australia, the United States, and England, holder of three silver belts and one gold one (...

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Preface: Androcles and the Lion. On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw.

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...Contents PREFACE ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY............................................................. 7 WHY NOT GIVE CHRISTIANITY A TRIAL? ....................................................................................................

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Elec... ...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to A... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...r two grotesque attempts at it by in- 8 Shaw adequate people, such as the Kingdom of God in Munster, which was ended by crucifixion so much more atro... ...order, however corrupt that order might be, by people with no knowledge of government and no power to construct political machin- ery to carry out the... ...f the Authorized Version is rapidly becoming obsolete; so that even in the United States, where the old tradition of the verbal infalli- bility of “th... ...sking them to read the gospels and state what they have gathered as to the history and views and character of Christ. THE GOSPELS NOW UNINTELLIGIBLE T... ...o his Christian- ity, and retains undisturbed his view of the kingdom as a locality as definite as Jerusalem or Madagascar. 41 Preface to Androcles a...