Sleep Story 201 - George Bernard Shaw: His Plays
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The War Between Orthodoxy and Heterodoxy
In the dramas of george bernard, or which deal almost wholly with the current conflict between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, it is but natural that the characters should fall broadly into two general classes. Darwin made this war between the faithful and the scoffers the chief concern of the time. The sham smashing that is now going on in all the fields of human inquiry might be compared to the crusades that engrossed the world in the middle ages. Every one, consciously or unconsciously, is more or less directly engaged in it. And so when short shooses conspicuous fighters in this war as the chief characters of his plays, he is but demonstrating his comprehension of human nature as it is
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