George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . here may be somedoubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children;but there can be no doubt that the parents are the jest of fate, Shaw began his career by joining a societywhose members regarded Socialism as an exploded fallacy!How little did anyone dream that, even then, undergroundrumblings of the approaching revolution might be faintlyheard! That recurrent quindecennial cycle of Socialistic up-heaval of which Karl Kautsky has somewhere spoken, was well-nigh completed. Within five years S
George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . here may be somedoubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children;but there can be no doubt that the parents are the jest of fate, Shaw began his career by joining a societywhose members regarded Socialism as an exploded fallacy!How little did anyone dream that, even then, undergroundrumblings of the approaching revolution might be faintlyheard! That recurrent quindecennial cycle of Socialistic up-heaval of which Karl Kautsky has somewhere spoken, was well-nigh completed. Within five years Socialism was to burst forthwith fresh impetus, sweep the younger generation along with it,and plunge the Dialectical and Zetetical Societies into the blind cave of eternal night. One night in the winter of 1879, Lecky dragged Shaw to ameeting of the Zetetical Society, which then met weekly in therooms of the Womans Protective and Provident League inGreat Queen Street, Long Acre. It will be related elsewherewhy Shaw decided to join the society at once; suffice it to say 92. Jrssi, ] [Courtesy of the Artist. Reproduced from the original photo-drawing, ;, /. .- THE FABIAN SOCIETY here that he became a frequent attendant upon the meetings ofthe society, entering actively, if haltingly, into discussion anddebate. The importance, in its bearing upon Shaws subsequentcareer as a man of affairs and a man of letters, of an acquaint-ance he formed at this time through the accident of joining theZetetical Society, can scarcely be overestimated. A few weeksafter joining the society Shaws keenest interest was arousedin a speaker who took part in one of the debates. This speakerwas a young man of about twenty-one, rather below middleheight, with small, pretty hands and feet, and a profile thatsuggested, on account of the nose and imperial, an improvementon Napoleon the Third. I well remember the animated wayin which Mr. Shaw described to me the man and the occurrence. He had a fine
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