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Major Barbara 191
During the visit to their father s factory the
Undershaft family makes several discoveries.
They learn that the best modern method of ac
cumulating a large fortune consists in organizing
industries in such a manner as to make the work
ers content with their slavery. It s a model fac
tory.
Undershaft. It is a spotlessly clean and beautiful hill
side town. There are two chapels : a Primitive one and
a sophisticated one. There s even an ethical society; but
it is not much patronized, as my men are all strongly
religious. In the high explosives sheds they object to the
presence of agnostics as unsafe.
The family further learns that it is not high
moral precepts, patriotic love of country, or sim
ilar sentiments that are the backbone of the life
of the nation. It is Undershaft again who en
lightens them of the power of money and its role
in dictating governmental policies, making war or
peace, and shaping the destinies of man.
Undershaft. The government of your country. / am
the government of your country: I, and Lazarus. Do
you suppose that you and a half a dozen amateurs like
you, sitting in a row in that foolish gabble shop, can
govern Undershaft and Lazarus? No, my friend: you
will do what pays us. You will make war when it suits
us, and keep peace when it doesn t. You will find out
that trade requires certain measures when we have de-
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