Mrs. Warren’s Profession

by George Bernard Shaw, 1893/1898

Shaw to Henry James, 17 January 1909

“I, as a Socialist, have had to preach, as much as anyone, the enormous power of the environment. We can change it; we must change it; there is absolutely no other sense in life than the task of changing it. What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.”

What, indeed?

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