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- Author: G K Chesterton
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 86
- ISBN-10: 1514343878
- ISBN-13: 9781514343876
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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A peculiar difficulty arrests the writer of this rough study at the very start. Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who would write a very long preface even to a very short play. And there is truth in the idea; he is indeed a very prefatory sort of person. He always gives the explanation before the incident; but so, for the matter of that, does the Gospel of St. John. For Bernard Shaw, as for the mystics, Christian and heathen (and Shaw is best described as a heathen mystic), the philosophy of facts is anterior to the facts themselves. In due time we come to the fact, the incarnation; but in the beginning was the Word.
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- Author: G K Chesterton
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Year: 2015
- Pages: 86
- ISBN-10: 1514343878
- ISBN-13: 9781514343876
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.5 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
A peculiar difficulty arrests the writer of this rough study at the very start. Many people know Mr. Bernard Shaw chiefly as a man who would write a very long preface even to a very short play. And there is truth in the idea; he is indeed a very prefatory sort of person. He always gives the explanation before the incident; but so, for the matter of that, does the Gospel of St. John. For Bernard Shaw, as for the mystics, Christian and heathen (and Shaw is best described as a heathen mystic), the philosophy of facts is anterior to the facts themselves. In due time we come to the fact, the incarnation; but in the beginning was the Word.
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