Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Creighton Chronicle, Vol. 9: Jan. 20, 1918
There is something grotesque in the fairly common estimate of Shaw as an immoral writer who is intellectually impregnable; when, as a matter of fact, he has the highest moral purpose, but a defective mental vision, a defective vision, though by no means an utter lack of vision; just as there are myopic men whose eyesight will not serve to keep them from walking off into the gutters or bumping into other pedestrians, yet who can discover ?aws in a diamond if held just before their noses. The really pathetic thing about Shaw is that, knowing his moral pur pose to be excellent, he insists also that his vision is the only normal one, whilst all the rest of men are abnormal. This is not the last word in explanation of him: only God knows that ex planation completely. And even to understand this partial ex planation we must consider a few of the many facts which Shaw has so generously placed at the disposal of his critics.
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