...A T reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Treatise on Par... ...an improved machine answering the same purpose. He also knows that if some devil were to convince us that our dream of personal immortality is no drea... ...al immortality is no dream but a hard fact, such a shriek of despair would go up from the human race as no other conceivable horror could provoke. Wit... ...ieve it postulate that they shall be made per- fect first. But if you make me perfect I shall no longer be myself, nor will it be possible for me to c... ... I cannot conceive I cannot remem- ber); so that you may just as well give me a new name and face the fact that I am a new person and that the old Ber... ...ll; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. Therefore let us give up telling one another idle stories, and rejoice in death as we... ... parents, and to allow them to do what they like with it as far as it will let them. It has no rights and no liberties: in short, its condition is tha... ...ies, and to public opinion. A father cannot for his own credit let his son go in rags. Also, in a very large section of the population, parents finall... ...isses is “Run away, darling.” It is nicer than “Hold your noise, you young devil; or it will be the worse for you”; but fundamentally it means the sam...

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...GETTING MARRIED and “Preface to Getting Married” by George Bernard Shaw 1908 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Getting Marr... ...round to their friends announcing what they have done. Young women come to me and ask me whether I think they ought to consent to marry the man they h... ...n and how many blankets should be on the bed, and at what hour they should go to bed and get up so as to avoid disturbing one another’s sleep, seemed ... ... as to avoid disturbing one another’s sleep, seemed insoluble questions to me. But the members of the conference did not seem to mind. They were conte... ... hours to do it in. And they were no good for any mortal purpose except to go on doing it. They were respectable only by the standard they themselves ... ...ghtlessly glorifying it as the ideal married state. THE GOSPEL OF LAODICEA Let us try to get at the root error of these false domestic doctrines. Why ... ...es with red-hot pincers whilst multitudes of unredeemed rascals were being let off with clipped ears, burnt palms, a flogging, or a few years in the g... .... If we are going to discuss ethical questions we must begin by giving the devil fair play. Boxer never does. England never does. We always assume tha... ...fair play. Boxer never does. England never does. We always assume that the devil is guilty; and we wont allow him to prove his innocence, because it w...