George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . u u e OS J; o g w a Q o > M a: 0 2: THE FABIAN SOCIETY went and did so, and then found, as he once said, that hisadvisers were awestruck, as they had not read it themselves!It was then accessible only in the French version at the BritishMuseum. William Archer has testified to the diligence withwhich Shaw studied Marxs great work; he caught his firstglimpse of Shaw in the British Museum Library, where henoticed a young man of tawny complexion and attire study-ing alternately—if not simultaneously—Das Kapital, and an
George Bernard Shaw, his life and works; a critical biography (authorized) . u u e OS J; o g w a Q o > M a: 0 2: THE FABIAN SOCIETY went and did so, and then found, as he once said, that hisadvisers were awestruck, as they had not read it themselves!It was then accessible only in the French version at the BritishMuseum. William Archer has testified to the diligence withwhich Shaw studied Marxs great work; he caught his firstglimpse of Shaw in the British Museum Library, where henoticed a young man of tawny complexion and attire study-ing alternately—if not simultaneously—Das Kapital, and anorchestral score of Tristan and Isolde! While Darwin, Huxley, Spencer and their school left a distinctimpress upon Shaws mind, it is nevertheless true that he neverbecame a Darwinian. To-day he is violently opposed toDarwinian materialism; and yet the Shavian philosophy, his-torically considered, is a natural consequence of that bitterfight against convention, custom, authority, and orthodoxy,inaugurated by Darwin and his followers. But Shaws soci-ologic doctrine is a
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