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To: Las Vegas Ron
GK Chesterton on GB Shaw...

"After belabouring a great many people for a great many years for being unprogressive, Mr. Shaw has discovered, with characteristic sense, that it is very doubtful whether any existing human being with two legs can be progressive at all. Having come to doubt whether humanity can be combined with progress, most people, easily pleased, would have elected to abandon progress and remain with humanity. Mr. Shaw, not being easily pleased, decides to throw over humanity with all its limitations and go in for progress for its own sake. If man, as we know him, is incapable of the philosophy of progress, Mr. Shaw asks, not for a new kind of philosophy, but for a new kind of man. It is rather as if a nurse had tried a rather bitter food for some years on a baby, and on discovering that it was not suitable, should not throw away the food and ask for a new food, but throw the baby out of window, and ask for a new baby."

8 posted on 03/02/2013 9:34:56 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Thanks, I have never read that before.

This is pretty enlightening too, Shaw and his ilk are indeed dangerous people (short about 3 min):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQvsf2MUKRQ


12 posted on 03/02/2013 10:28:26 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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