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A Treatise on Parents and Children

By: George Bernard Shaw

...reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...th as a blasphemer: as, indeed, guilty of the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost. If the pen- alty were death, it would rid us at once of that sc... ...neck for fun fifty times every winter in the hunting field, and at Badajos sieges and the like will ram his head into a hole bristling with sword blad... ...read, write, count money, and pass an examination in going a simple errand involving a purchase and a journey by rail or other public method of locomo... ...n in society must do as ev- erybody else does in his class: only fools and romantic nov- ices imagine that freedom is a mere matter of the readiness o... ... experience it is often quite the reverse. When I was a very small boy, my romantic imagi- nation, stimulated by early doses of fiction, led me to bra... ...nt word reminds us that though the popular conception of heaven includes a Holy Family, it does not attach to that family the notion of a separate hom... ...f religion is false teaching, and is politically extremely dangerous in an empire in which a huge majority of the fellow subjects of the governing isl...

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