Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket CompanionShaw, Bernard
Philosophy
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion
Shaw, Bernard
English essays
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But
every Englishman loves and desires a pedigree. And in that he is right.
King Demos must be bred like all other Kings; and with Must there is no
arguing. It is idle for an individual writer to carry so great a matter
further in a pamphlet. A conference on the subject is the next step
needed. It will be attended by men and women who, no longer believing
that they can live for ever, are seeking for some immortal work into
which they can build the best of themselves before their refuse is
thrown into that arch dust destructor, the cremation furnace.
[Transcriber's Note: Shaw promoted spelling reform of his own invention.
His spelling reform included not using apostrophes for contractions,
thus this text has 'dont' instead of 'don't' and -iz- instead of -is-
even in words which standard English, both British or American, spells
with -is-, for example: partizan, artizan. He had the goal of making
spelling more phonetic. He spelled it 'Shakespear'. He spelled
'Caesar' with an ae ligature. He used diacritical on French words and
names.]
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