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(1914) Author: Emma Goldman
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Major Barbara 19$
nature. I defy you in every possible way. Still, it is
true. But it ought not to be true.
Undershaft. Ought, ought, ought, ought, ought!
Are you going to spend your life saying ought, like the
rest of our moralists? Turn your oughts into shells,
man. Come and make explosives with me. The history
of the world is the history of those who had the courage
to embrace this truth.
"
Major Barbara
"
is one of the most revolu
tionary plays. In any other but dramatic form
the sentiments uttered therein would have con
demned the author to long imprisonment for in
citing to sedition and violence.
Shaw the Fabian would be the first to repudiate
such utterances as rank Anarchy,
"
impractical,
brain cracked and criminal." But Shaw the
dramatist is closer to life closer to reality,
closer to the historic truth that the people wrest
only as much liberty as they have the intelligence
to want and the courage to take.

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