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...Publication An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...k to the ladies in order to stand at the edge of the veranda and shake the water out of his hat. Josephs came next, shrinking from the damp contact of... ...er in his arms. “Quick,” he said to Agatha, “she is fainting. Run for some water. Run!” And he bent over Henrietta, who clung to him frantically. Agat... ... “You have a noble ‘art, lady; but you’re flying in the face of the law of supply and demand. If you keep payin’ at this rate, there’ll be a rush of l... ...ause all this indispensable plant, and the materials for producing a fresh supply of it, had been appro- priated by earlier comers. So they found them... ...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... ...r a man to be a hero in this nineteenth century, which will be infamous in history as a time when the greatest advances in the power of man over natur...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...did it than the manager of a hotel which began as a Hydropathic has of the water cure. Or you can buy a cheaper plate inscribed KINDERGAR- TEN, and im... ...sky fell we should all catch larks. But I do not propose to bother about a supply of specific genius which does not exist, and which, if it did exist,... ...on, unless its publicly active citizens know a good deal of constitutional history, law, and political science, with its basis of econom- ics. If as m... ...ce. And if we cannot devise fresh wants as fast as we develop the means of supplying them, there will come a scarcity of the needed, cut-and-dried, ap... ...d me to read the budget of stupid party lies that served as a text-book of history in school, I remember reading Robertson’s Charles V . and his histo... ... an academic contempt for Wellington, he would not have left the attack at Waterloo to Ney and D’Erlon, who, on that field, did not know when they wer...

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r too dirty a task for their own hands) we proceeded in search of a little water for personal use. B. speedily finished his ablutions. I was strolling... ...” They did not smile and said: “Directly.” I smiled and said: “I want some water, if you please.” They shut the door, saying “Later.” Klang and footst... ...ver I should see the Gestionnaire and make arrangements for drawing on the supply of ready cash which the gendarmes who took me from Gré had con- fide... ...odly injection of checkerberry— for the simple reason that the Cook had to supply our captors and especially Apollyon with real coffee, whereas what h... ...en were upstairs after the second promenade (which gave the writer of this history an exquisite chance to see an atrocity at first-hand), Lena was tak... ...as indeed he had been cheerfully expecting for some time. If he reads this history I hope he will not be too angry with me for whatever injustice it d...

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...us 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 playgoers whose point of honor is to deride all official and conventional sermons....

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...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... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... charge 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 Sta... ..., 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... ... the story of the Committee in greater detail, partly as a contribution to history; partly be- cause, like most true stories, it is more amusing than ... ...t- tee, I offered to have this statement printed at my own expense, and to supply the members with cop- ies. The offer was accepted; and the copies su... ...Committee had cost me quite enough already, and that I was not prepared to supply the members of the Committee, or anyone else, with extra copies mere... ...ogy, and the bathers in the second act of Les Huguenots, to the ballets of water nymphs in our Christmas pantomimes and at our variety theatres, the s...

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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? ........................................................................................................ 7 WHY ...

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...PREFACE TO ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classic... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a ... ...cs Series Publication Preface to Androcles and the Lion: On the Prospects of Christianity by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ... the task of going steadily through them, unless you know something of the history of the human imagination as applied to religion. Not long ago I ask... ...There is as much evidence that the miracles occurred as that the battle of Waterloo occurred, or that a large body of Russian troops passed through En... ...cles, and reject the feeding of the multitude. T o some the walking on the water will be a legendary exaggeration of a swim, ending in an ordinary res... ...t money; and that requires an elaborate municipal organization of the food supply, rate supported. Being members one of another means One Man One Vote... ...ould be quite practicable in a village where production was limited to the supply of the primitive wants which nature imposes on all human beings alik...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...nvolving the ruthless destruction or subjection of its competitors for the supply (assumed to be limited) of subsistence available. We 9 GB Shaw taug... ...e like to such an extent that it may be doubted whether ever before in the history of the world did soothsayers, astrologers, and unregistered thera- ... ...r vilest passions and most abject terrors. Ever since Thucydides wrote his history , it has been on record that when the angel of death sounds his tru... ...ganization of several millions of fighting men and of the workers who were supplying them with provisions, muni- tions, and transport, and that this c... ...ry signally refuted by the event. As Sir Douglas Haig has pointed out, its Waterloos lasted months instead of hours. But there would have been nothing... ...rs, forgetting everything we professed to fight for, are sitting down with watering mouths to a good square meal of ten years revenge upon and humilia...

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...rite a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit per se. Its profits, like its labor, belong to me: its morals, its manners, its philosophy, its influence on the young, are for y...

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...MAN AND SUPERMAN A Comedy and a Philosophy by GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...uperman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... adulterate the product with aph- rodisiacs nor dilute it with romance and water; for I am merely executing your commission, not producing a popular p... ...ction leaves them free to play with the diluted and misapprehended message supply them with a pleasant par- lor game which they call style. I can pity... ...ing one of these susceptible: If you study the electric light with which I supply you in that Bumbledonian public capacity of mine over which you make... ...stance, the etherealization of his blood into rapturous rivers of the very water of life itself, the revelation of all the mysteries and the sanc- tif... ...th me. I am not discuss- ing literature: the book about the bee is natural history. It’s an awful lesson to mankind. You think that you are Ann’s suit... ... men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between th...