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Excerpt: The Doctor?s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by George Bernard Shaw.

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...THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA: PREFACE ON DOCTORS By BERNARD SHAW 1909 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA: PREFACE ON DOCTORS By BERNARD SHAW 1909 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Doctor’s... ...BERNARD SHAW 1909 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Doctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by George Bernard Shaw is a publicatio... ...ctor’s Dilemma: Preface on Doctors by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...d the possibility of leaving to sentence one prisoner (under the Blasphemy laws) for questioning the authority of Scripture, and another for ignorantl... ... The doctor never hesitates to claim divine omniscience, nor to clamor for laws to pun- ish any scepticism on the part of laymen. A modern doctor thin... ...railway company for damages because a train had run over him and amputated both his legs. He lost his case because it was proved that he had deliberat... .... Thus the conservative surgeon and the radical or extirpatory surgeon may both be right as far as the ultimate cure is concerned; so that their consc...

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...Excerpt: He devils for the doctor by answering his letters, acting as his domestic laboratory assistant, and making himself indispensable generally, in return for unspecified advantages involved by intimate intercourse with a leader of his profession, ...

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...THE DOCTOR’S DILEMMA BY BERNARD SHAW 1906 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Doctor’s... ...BERNARD SHAW 1906 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ... Publication The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University,... ... EMMY [entering and immediately beginning to dust the couch] Theres a lady bothering me to see the doctor. REDPENNY [distracted by the interruption] W... ...ether he could see somebody? REDPENNY. You did. EMMY. I said theres a lady bothering me to see the doctor. That isnt asking. Its telling. REDPENNY. We... ...e right. Sorry to lose you, my dear lady; but Sir Patrick’s orders are the laws of—er—of Tyre and Sidon. WALPOLE. Let me take you home in my motor. SI... ...own your foolish pencil, man; and think of your position. You can defy the laws made by men; but there are other laws to reckon with. Do you know that...

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Excerpt: A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw.

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...A T reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Treatise on Par... ...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... ...alive. The moment he sees death approach, he gets into bed and sends for a doctor. He knows very well at the back of his conscience that he is rather ... ...rsemaids and general servants, and the lads as errand boys. In the country both boys and girls do a substantial share of farm labor. This is why it is... ...there when his expulsion would have been an unspeakable relief and benefit both to his teachers and himself. It may be argued that if the uncommercial... ...ind a solicitor, or even a judge, who has some notion of what law means, a doctor with a glim- mering of science, an officer who understands duty and ... ...r, from which the grown-ups are free, for the stern but entirely dignified Laws of Life to which all flesh is subject. University Schoolboyishness OLD... ...ent, and his simple inability to understand why he should not use and make laws to torment and subdue people who do not happen to agree with him. In a...

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Excerpt: The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw.

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...THE PHILANDERER by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Philanderer b... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable D... ...eries Publication The Philanderer by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...kness and kindness: one is as the other—espe- cially frankness. I’ve tried both. (He crosses to the fireplace, and stands facing the fire, looking at ... ... Mrs. T ranfield’s house if she objects. She can ring the bell and have us both put out. JULIA. Let her do it then. Let her ring the bell if she dares... ...e medical schools as an example of the newest sort of liver complaint. The doctors say he can’t last another year; and he has fully made up his mind n... ...t it’s only an instrument maker. CUTHBERTSON. Any new medical discoveries, doctor? PARAMORE. Well, since you ask me, yes—perhaps a most important one.... ...ense of intolerable injustice.) It’s the fault of the wickedly sentimental laws of this country. I was not able to make experiments enough—only three ...

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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... ...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... ...s defi- cient in freshness. “No progress whatever, I am sorry to say,” the doctor was remarking. “That is very disappointing,” said the lady, contract... ... her brows. “It is natural that you should feel disappointed,” replied the doctor. “I would myself earnestly advise you to try the effect of placing h... ...d to keep account of gloves and foils sold and bought, and of the fees due both to Mr. and Mrs. Skene. This was the most irksome part of his duty; for... ...f wealth and a market for the sale of virgins. Having become familiar with both the cult and the trade elsewhere, she found nothing to interest her ex... ...s are usually precise in their language; they rarely vio- late the written laws of society. Besides, his pronunciation of some words is so distinct th... ... to many persons, it was to Mrs. Skene an operation governed by the strict laws of the art she professed, and one so elaborate that few of her pupils ...

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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... ...ANDROCLES AND THE LION: ON THE PROSPECTS OF CHRISTIANITY By George Bernard Shaw 1912 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to 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... ...ntarily practised to a con- siderable extent in spite of the fact that the laws of all coun- tries treat it, in effect, as criminal. Many of its advoc... ...us had been indicted in a modern court, he would have been examined by two doctors; found to be ob- sessed by a delusion; declared incapable of pleadi... ...tly legalized revenge and partly expiation by sacrifice. It works out from both sides in the notion that two blacks make a white, and that when a wron... ...face the world as best they can with that brand on them, we should get rid both of punishment and sacrifice. It would not at all follow: on the contra... ...of superstition. We will believe in nothing less than millions. A medieval doctor gained his patient’s confidence by telling him that his vitals were ... ...te Newton’s work on fluxions. LIMITS TO FREE WILL Consequently such of our laws as are not merely the intimi- dations by which tyrannies are maintaine...

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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... ...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... ... when you come down with a thump like that. You shake the whole house.” Oh bother!” said Miss Wylie. “The Lady Abbess takes good care to shut out all ... ...never come singly. Read that,” and handed her another letter, so that they both began reading at the same time. Mrs. Jansenius read as follows: 15 GB... ...arliament from a poor and corrupt constituency, and helped to preserve the laws by which he had thriven. Afterwards, when his wealth grew famous, he h... ...e, but because this particular Henry or Augustus was a phoenix to whom the laws that govern the relations of ordinary lads and lasses did not ap- ply,... ...d, she was also forearmed against an attack of it on herself, much as if a doctor were to conclude that he could not catch smallpox because he had see... ...ing that he knew its perils too well to run any risk of them. Y et, as the doctor might hold such an opin- ion if he believed himself to be constitute...

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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 Series Publication Man and Superman:... ...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... ...ple whose relations with one another have been complicated by the marriage laws, not to mention the looser sort of plays which trade on the tradition ... ...lations be- tween the man and the woman than about the relations be- tween both and our courts of law and private juries of ma- trons, produces that s... ...mpress Catherine. Byron was as little of a philosopher as Peter the Great: both were instances of that rare and useful, but unedifying variation, an e... ...of doves; and there is no need for Perdita to capture Florizel as the lady doctor in All’s Well That Ends Well (an early Ibsenite heroine) captures Be... ...especially if he takes care not to split his infinitives. And so with your Doctors of Music, who, with their collections of discords duly prepared and... ...d with flash- ing eyes] Well said, Malone! You also see that mere marriage laws are not morality! I agree with you; but unfortunately Violet does not....

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...ing it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...GETTING MARRIED and “Preface to Getting Married” by George Bernard Shaw 1908 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Getting Marr... ...eries Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...e altar, they insist on first arriv- ing at an explicit understanding that both parties are to be perfectly free to sip every flower and change every ... ...ne another to ignore it. 4 Shaw MARRIAGE NEVERTHELESS INEVITABLE Now most laws are, and all laws ought to be, stronger than the strongest individual.... ...no career to be closed. In every other case open violation of the marriage laws means either downright ruin or such inconvenience and disablement as a... ...e most highly civilized countries in the world, a marriage is dissolved if both parties wish it, without any question of conduct. That is what marriag... ...ad as much health as they wanted: that is, they did not feel the need of a doctor. They enjoyed their smokes, their meals, their respectable clothes, ... ...ldren may be, and quite often are, killed by her cuddling and coddling and doctoring and preaching: above all, by her continuous at- tempts to excite ...

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Excerpt: Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw.

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...PREFACE TO MAJOR BARBARA FIRST AID TO CRITICS BY BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Preface to Major ... ...lication Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...ajor Barbara: First Aid to Critics 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... ...t, the Socialist revival of the eighteen-eighties brought me into contact, both literary and personal, with Mr Ernest Belfort Bax, an English Socialis... ...anks to our political imbecility and personal cowardice (fruits of poverty both), the best imitation of a good life now procurable is life on an indep... ...ch the very sense of shame is lost. The Chris- tian has been like Dickens’ doctor in the debtor’s prison, who tells the newcomer of its ineffable peac... ...ne moral from these grim absurdities. It is not good sense to propose that laws against crime should apply to principals only and not to ac- cessories... ... duty must be to compel every- body to assist the police. No doubt if your laws are unjust, 34 Preface to Major Barbara and your policemen agents of ...

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...sorship 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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...THE SHEWING-UP OF BLANCO POSNET By GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shewing-Up 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... ...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... ...ly gives me an opportunity of telling the story of the Select Committee of both Houses of Parliament which sat last year to enquire into the working o... ...cial story. All commissions of public enquiry are more or less intimidated both by the interests on which they have to sit in judgment and, when their... ...rature, philosophy, or law. He calls in a playwright just as he calls in a doctor, or consults a lawyer, or engages an architect, depending on the pla... ... and body of jurisprudence apply equally to a censorship. A magistrate has laws to administer: a censor has nothing but his own opinion. A judge leave... ...not long since a judge before whom a licensed play came in the course of a lawsuit expressed his scandalized astonishment at the licensing of such a w... ...ou gave up drink yourself because when you got that fit at Edwardstown the doctor told you youd die the next time; and that frightened you off it. ELD...

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Excerpt: The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung?s Ring by George Bernard Shaw.

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...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Perfect Wagne... ...he Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion 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... ...s, in snobbery, jobbery, idolatry, and an omnipresent tyranny in which his doctor and his school- master, his lawyer and his priest, coerce him worse ... ...evolu- tion, as if it were a comet, by calculations founded on “his- toric laws.” To my amazement these reasonable remarks were received as hideous bl... ...is point of view, The Ring is full of extraordinarily attractive episodes, both orchestral and dramatic. The nature music alone—music of river and rai... ...hments and the destruction of the disobedient. And however carefully these laws are framed to represent the highest thoughts of the framers at the mom... ...ision; his castle has cost him his affections; and the attempt to re- tain both has cost him his honor. On every side he is shack- led and bound, depe...

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Excerpt: Mrs. Warren?s Profession by George Bernard Shaw.

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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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...BREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbr... ...e Russian Manner on English Themes 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... ...s one came upon horsebreakers and heartbreakers who could make the best of both worlds. As a rule, however, the two were apart and knew little of one ... ...who had spent their lives furnishing their pockets instead of their minds. Both, however, were practised in dealing with money and with men, as far as... ...hey did during this half century of the drift to the abyss. The registered doctors and surgeons were hard put to it to compete with the unreg- istered... ...y of toil reduces production heavily instead of increasing it, the factory laws were sus- pended, and men and women recklessly over-worked until the l... ...nd Billie Dunns as they, poor devils, live among the disease germs and the doctors and the lawyers and the parsons and the restaurant chefs and the tr... ... in the fore- castle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favor of England because you were born in ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman, spiritually a little weath...

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...Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Captain Brassboun... ...sics Series Publication Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...n Captain Brassbound’s Conversion 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... ...heres. Them eathens is jast lawk you an’ me, gavner. A lady and gentleman, both English, come into the garden. The gentleman, more than elderly, is fa... ...f the Attorney General and the Solicitor General; and these gentlemen were both retained by the agent. Con- sequently there was no solicitor in the is... ...cely: you are talking great nonsense and you know it. These people have no laws to restrain them, which means, in plain English, that they are habitua... ...ear to be wicked, and praise him for it, and have policemen and courts and laws and juries to drive him into it so that he can’t help doing it, what c... ...s- ecution. You mustn’t let Sir Howard make a speech, Captain Kearney: his doctors have positively forbidden anything of that sort. Will you begin wit...