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176 George Bernard Shaw
of his scope as propagandist and as artist. As the
propagandist Shaw is limited, dogmatic, and set.
Indeed, the most zealous Puritan could not be more
antagonistic to social theories differing from his
own. But the artist, if he is sincere at all, must go
to life as the source of his inspiration, and life is
beyond dogmas, beyond the House of Commons,
beyond even the
"
eternal and irrevocable law
"
of
the materialistic conception of history. If, then,
the Socialist propagandist Shaw is often lost in the
artist Shaw, it is not because he lacks sincerity, but
because life will not be curtailed.
It may be contended that Shaw is much more the
propagandist than the artist because he paints in
loud colors. But that is rather because of the in
dolence of the human mind, especially of the An
glo-Saxon mind, which has settled down snugly to
the self-satisfied notion of its purity, justice, and
charity, so that naught but the strongest current of
light will make it wince. In
"
Mrs. Warren s Pro
fession
"
and
"
Major Barbara," George Ber
nard Shaw has accomplished even more. He has
pulled off the mask of purity and Christian kind
ness that we may see their hidden viciousness at
work.
MRS. WARREN S PROFESSION
MRS. WARREN is engaged in a profession which
has existed through all the ages. It was at home
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