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...A T reatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pub... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...but this is not a justified and in- tended part of the situation: it is an abuse of Capitalism which nobody defends in principle. As between child and... ...thing from them. Here, again, as at so many points, we come up against the abuse of schools to keep people in ignorance and error, so that they may be... ...ls until last year (1913), when in what must be described as a paroxysm of sexual excitement pro- voked by the agitation concerning the White Slave Tr... ...prod- uct of Natural Selection; and though there is no viler crime than to abuse them, yet there is no greater cruelty than to ignore them. I have com... ...love is as innocent as the love of a child: the exclusion of all conscious sexual feeling from it does not ex- clude the bitterness, jealousy, and des... ...- clude the bitterness, jealousy, and despair at loss which char- acterize sexual passion: in fact, what is called a pure love may easily be more self...

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...eness of our class govern- ments in the English language, that whenever an abuse becomes oppressive enough to persuade our party parliamentarians that... ...morals. In par- ticular, I regard much current morality as to economic and sexual relations as disastrously wrong; and I re- 23 Shaw gard certain doc... ...r than all the statutes. A censor pretending to protect morality is like a child pushing the cushions of a railway carriage to give itself the sensati... ... conspirator who assassinated the head of the Ro- man State not because he abused his position but 29 Shaw solely because he occupied it, thus affirm... ..., outside his professional duties, as a gay, disorderly, anar- chic spoilt child, half privileged, half outlawed, prob- ably as much vagabond as actor... ...not usually discussed in general social conversation or in the presence of children; but it would presumably have a far deeper insight to and concern ... ...and foulness of mouth, they might be trusted by theatrical managers not to abuse the powers of the common informer. As it is, it has been found nec- e...

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...feeling or of interest in favour of it, than of any other of the customary abuses of force: for its motive was the love of gain, unmixed and undis gu... ...rates all attempts to maintain the power but protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has bee... ...t protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has been proved judicially to have suffered an inj... ...e allowed to have—those to the men with whom they are connected, or to the children who constitute an additional and indefeasible tie between them and... ... of all indi vidual will into the hands of a man, as an essential part of sexual attractiveness. Can it be doubted that any of the other yokes which ... ...rates all attempts to maintain the power but protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has bee... ...t protect the woman against its abuses. In no other case (except that of a child) is the person who has been proved judicially to have suffered an inj... ...John Stuart Mill 21 will into the hands of a man, as an essential part of sexual attractiveness. Can it be doubted that any of the other yokes which ...

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... sin is inadmissible. It is necessary in some way or other to regulate the sexual relations; but there exists no other foundation than the old one, in... ...other did not deceive each other. In consequence of this, I had built from childhood a dream of high and poetical conjugal life. My wife was to be per... ...ed those women who, by attaching themselves to me, or presenting me with a child, could bind my future. Moreover, perhaps there may have been children... ...-year stu- dent. I had not yet known women but, like all the unfor- tunate children of our society, I was already no longer innocent. I was tortured, ... ...it is woman who chooses. As soon as she is in possession of her means, she abuses them, and acquires a terrible supremacy.” “But where do you see this... ...o fan this sensuality into a strong, consuming flame, with the result that sexual vices and diseases have come to be the normal conditions of the peri... ... neighbor replied in the same angry manner, and finally the women began to abuse each other and call vile names. It happened that old Ivan’s wife, on ... ... her voice heard. As soon as she appeared on the scene, she, too, began to abuse her neighbor, reminding her of many dis- agreeable things which had h...

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...oards of Mrs Warren and Gretchen and the rest; in short, for banishing the sexual instincts from the stage altogether. Those who think this impossible... ...have no sex complications: the thread of their action can be fol- lowed by children who could not understand a single scene of Mrs Warren’s Profession... ...rupulous play- wrights. I challenge Mr Redford to mention any extremity of sexual misconduct which any manager in his senses would risk presenting on ... ...allusion to Mrs Warren’s profession, nor to the fact that the 11 G B Shaw children of any polyandrous group will, when they grow up, inevitably be co... ... as the two described above would have a monopoly of the theatre as far as sexual interest is concerned. What is more, the repulsiveness of the worst ... ...at if every other Briton is not kept under some form of tutelage, the more childish the better, he will abuse his freedom viciously. As far as its pri... ...ot kept under some form of tutelage, the more childish the better, he will abuse his freedom viciously. As far as its principle is concerned, the Cens...

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...f it. I read scraps of this novel when I was 4 Preface to Major Barbara a child; and it made an enduring impression on me. The hero was a very romant... ...out skill, without anything real except his bodily appe- tites. Even in my childhood I found in this poor devil’s un- successful encounters with the f... ... of a police force whose real business is to force the poor man to see his children starve whilst idle people overfeed pet dogs with the money that mi... ...y is over. Passion, the life of drama, means nothing to them but primitive sexual excitement: such phrases as “impassioned poetry” or “pas- sionate lo... ...ign, that); preaching, but not preaching submission; daring ill- usage and abuse, but not putting up with more of it than is inevitable; and practisin... ...in his power to escape from it, whilst he is still quite ready to meet the abuse of the old woman by attempting to smash a mug on her face. And that i...

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... which accord- ingly they bemoan, deride, despise, or, as usually happens, abuse: he, who succeeds in hitting off the weakness of the human mind more ... ... proper place. For the present I wish to revert to those, who would rather abuse or deride human emotions than understand them. Such persons will, dou... ...hus an infant believes that of its own free will it desires milk, an angry child believes that it freely desires to run away; further, a drunken man b... ... willingly have withheld: thus, too, a delirious man, a garrulous woman, a child, and others of like complexion, believe that they speak from the free... ...ally if we turn our attention to the first years of our life. We find that children, whose body is continually, as it were, in equilibrium, laugh or c... ...ire and love of riches. XLVIII. “Lust” is desire and love in the matter of sexual inter- course. Explanation—Whether this desire be excessive or not, ... ... bitious, or a timid man may abstain from excess in eating, drink- ing, or sexual indulgence, yet avarice, ambition, and fear are not contraries to lu...

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...has hit on the idea of forming a heroic bodyguard. He has trained his love children as war-maidens (Valkyries) whose duty it is to sweep through battl... ...n seems prospering. In the mountains he calls his war-maiden Brynhild, the child borne to him by the First Mother, and bids her see to it that Hunding... ...ions of our educated classes as it was forty years ago. In those days, any child who expressed a doubt as to the absolute truth of the Church’s teachi... ...ight comes the Wanderer, whom the dwarf, recognizing his despoiler of old, abuses as a shameless thief, taunting him with the helpless way in which al... ... is a sentiment of affec- tionate benevolence which has nothing to do with sexual passion. It might, and in fact does exist in the absence of any sexu... ... process to poetic love only by following it back to its alleged origin in sexual passion, the emotional phenomena of which he has expressed in music ... ... sword in hand, but simply Love, and not even Shelleyan love, but vehement sexual passion. It is highly significant of the ex- tent to which this uxor...

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...ter me: drawings.—Of for- 23 e e cummings tifications? Hardly; of poilus, children, and other ruins.— Ummmm. (Monsieur examined the drawings and foun... ...ce. The technique of this landscape frightened me. There were houses, men, children. And there were trees. I began to wonder what a tree looks like, a... ...? That would not be so bad. He wished he was not married, had not a little child. “The bachelors are lucky in this war”—he smiled. Now the gendarmes b... ...r … the wooden man was watching us. When I came abreast of them, expecting abuse, I was sur- prised by the older’s saying quietly “We haven’t far to g... ...omplished, the figures wandered back, greeted with a volley of ejaculatory abuse from the invisible co-occupants of my new sleeping-apartment; and dis... ... of a planton was, so long as I inhabited La Ferté, the only case in which abuse of the weaker sex was punished. That attempts at abuse were frequent ... ...t, its movements nor graceful nor awkward. It came and went with a certain sexual velocity, a velocity whose 117 e e cummings health and vigour made ... ...dly shout- ing face framed in its huge night of dishevelled hair, her deep sexual voice, hoarsely strident above the din and smoke, shouting fiercely ... ...ure as God in His skillful and infinite wisdom ever created. Her intensely sexual face greeted us nearly always as we descended pour la soupe. She wou...

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...he outlines. Rickie filled them in with the slowness and the accuracy of a child. He was never told anything, but he discovered for himself that his f... ...ckly growing old. She had to manage the servants, to hush the neighbouring children, to answer the correspon- dence, to paper and re-paper the rooms—a... ...mper. Rickie had offered him money. “My dear fellow don’t be so cross. The child’s mad.” “If it was, I’d forgive that. But I can’t stand unhealthiness... ...r, a gentle charitable man scarcely realized his power, and never tried to abuse it. Mr. Wilbraham, the agent, was of another mould. He knew his place... ...Stephen was the fruit of sin; therefore he was sinful, He, too, be- came a sexual snob. And now he must hear the unsavoury details. That evening they ...

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...ding of a hopeless parting. And he loved, with a sentimental yearning, all children, puppies, and the feeble generally …. So, you see, he would have p... ...ver could rid myself quite of the accent of the Pennsylvania Duitsch of my childhood. Anyhow, we were drawn in a sort of tri- umph, for five marks wit... ...o wait five or six hours …. I used to keep awake whole nights cursing that abuse. My wife used to run—she never, in whatever else she may have misled ... ...out her an air of inattention as if she were listen- ing, a mother, to the child at her knee, or as if, precisely, I were myself the patient. You unde... ...olent, overbearing, vain, drunken, arrogant, and monstrously a prey to his sexual necessities. And, at hearing of the miseries her aunt had suffered—f...

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...y the sunshine. All were glad, the plants, the birds, the insects, and the children. But men, grown-up men and women, did not leave off cheat- ing and... ...d thought, “This is what evil conduct, conduct unlike ours, leads to.” The children stopped and gazed at the robber with frightened looks; but the tho... ...cted by its mother, whom it hindered at her work, and left to starve. Five children had died in this way. They had all been baptised and then not suff... ...e jury, how carefully they should use the rights and how they ought not to abuse them, about their being on their oath, that they were the conscience ... ...ng the red-haired woman by the skirt, attentively listened to the words of abuse that the women and the convicts flung at each other, and repeated the... ...other end of the shelf beds, accompanying every word with frightfully vile abuse. “Mind you don’t get it again,” Korableva replied, also adding words ... ...e Katusha. These women were also united by the repulsion they both felt to sexual love. The one loathed that kind of love, having experienced all its ... ...451 Tolstoy and the uniting them with the wives and husbands of others for sexual intercourse; by shooting or hanging them. To those who were deprived...

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...uld mirror whatever is good in the life within. Temperance, tolerance, and sexual equality were intelligible cries to them; whereas they did not follo... ...he more earnest members of his family never forgave him, and knew that his children, though scarcely English of the dreadful sort, would never be Germ... ...an to talk about the weather. “Papa,” she cried—she was a most of- fensive child—”why will they not discuss this most clear question?” Her father, sur... ...ible to catch up with lei- sured women, who had been reading steadily from childhood? His brain might be full of names, he might have even heard of Mo... ...ret, with her packing to do, focussed the conversation on Henry. She might abuse Henry behind his back, but please would she always be civil to him in... ...k of self-control. In a long letter she pointed out the need of charity in sexual matters; so little is known about them; it is hard enough for those ...

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...it then that when a joint domestic establish- ment, involving questions of children or property, is con- templated, marriage is in effect compulsory u... ...we have unlimited Kulin polygamy, Muslim po- lygamy limited to four wives, child marriages, and, nearer home, marriages of first cousins: all of them ... ...t the object of marriage is to provide for the production and rear- ing of children, then childlessness should be a conclusive reason for dissolution.... ...ts majorities is never more disastrous than when there is some question of sexual morals to be dealt with. The business of a democratic statesman is n... ...ve to succeed unless it includes the recogni- tion of an absolute right to sexual experience, and is un- tainted by the Pauline or romantic view of su... ... necessary under existing circumstances for a woman without property to be sexually attractive, because she must get married to secure a livelihood; a... ...D MANNERS On the other hand, we have all seen the bonds of marriage vilely abused by people who are never classed with shrews and wife-beaters: they a... ... our present plan of trying to force human nature into a mould of existing abuses, superstitions, and corrupt interests, pro- duces the explosive forc... ...religious heterodoxy , contagious disease, outrages, indignities, personal abuse, “mental an- guish,” conduct rendering life burdensome and so forth (...

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...ontemporary English drama, forced to deal almost exclusively with cases of sexual attraction, and yet forbidden to exhibit the incidents of that attra... ...tries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriousness to our childish theatres. There the Juliets and Isoldes, the Romeos and T ristans,... ...t in a drama which, with all its preoccupation with sex, is really void of sexual interest, good looks are more de- sired than histrionic skill. Let m... ...this essence I have no control. You propound a certain social sub- stance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distil it for yo... ...ctory founda- tion for society. Money means nourishment and marriage means children; and that men should put nourishment first and women children firs... ...men of all countries: stupidity. The vitality which places nourishment and children first, heaven and hell a some- what remote second, and the health ... ...ss arrangements are subject to the approval of your Trade Union. But don’t abuse your advantages. Let me remind you that Voltaire said that what was t...