Sublime

Perhaps the most thoroughly brilliant and typical man of this decade is Mr. Bernard Shaw.

However, he had made a mistake—as definite as a mistake in multiplication. It may be summarised thus: that the same inequality and insecurity that makes cheap labour may make bad labour, and at last no labour at all.

most of the decent rich of the Bright and Cobden sort did have a kind of confused faith that the economic conflict would work well in the long run for everybody.

He was conservative because he cared for their past, and liberal because he cared for their future. But he was much more than this.

It had that deeply conservative belief in the most ancient of institutions, the average man, which goes by the name of democracy.